This is a great thread on how an ordinary person stepped up to help her community during a crisis (her kids’ school burned down in the recent LA fires).
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Jason, thank you for channeling Mr. Rogers and sharing a view of the helpers. Jen and the collective care of her community remind me of Rebecca Solnit’s incredible book,A Paradise Built In Hell. As a gross over-generalization of her thesis, we human beings are kind-hearted, generous folk until the state comes in to reassert governmental control of resource allocation. That’s when the scarcity sets in.
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