Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and serv…

Ivan Illich
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Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced. ✨ Ivan Illich (1972). Institutional inversion
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