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[Terra: note about the word "unfairness". I think we should rethink using the word fairness, so as to think of the concept of "commons" instead, and the shift of "too much to private control of too few people".  I don't want to scare people who are afraid of sustainability...because they seem, in my research, to fear people taking their money, property, whatever, in the name of "fairness". Their concept of fair is that if they "work harder" (in their definition), then they own more stuff. Perhaps use teh word facilitating? encouraging fairness in all of its forms?  Critics are all over the concept of "wealth redistribution".  I think that we should embrace that, and make references to age old texts, like the Old Testament, which encourage humans to redistribute wealth every 50 years.]]
[Terra: note about the word "unfairness". I think we should rethink using the word fairness, so as to think of the concept of "commons" instead, and the shift of "too much to private control of too few people".  I don't want to scare people who are afraid of sustainability...because they seem, in my research, to fear people taking their money, property, whatever, in the name of "fairness". Their concept of fair is that if they "work harder" (in their definition), then they own more stuff. Perhaps use teh word facilitating? encouraging fairness in all of its forms?  Critics are all over the concept of "wealth redistribution".  I think that we should embrace that, and make references to age old texts, like the Old Testament, which encourage humans to redistribute wealth every 50 years.]

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[Terra: note about the word "unfairness". I think we should rethink using the word fairness, so as to think of the concept of "commons" instead, and the shift of "too much to private control of too few people". I don't want to scare people who are afraid of sustainability...because they seem, in my research, to fear people taking their money, property, whatever, in the name of "fairness". Their concept of fair is that if they "work harder" (in their definition), then they own more stuff. Perhaps use teh word facilitating? encouraging fairness in all of its forms? Critics are all over the concept of "wealth redistribution". I think that we should embrace that, and make references to age old texts, like the Old Testament, which encourage humans to redistribute wealth every 50 years.]