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    We’ve gone from an autonomous member of a community to a consumer in a system, trading our ancestral autonomy for a subscription model of health.

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    In my view community knowledge through generations is more beneficial than the modern knowledge which is commodified. As individualism becomes higher we will lose all those knowledge and rely solely on the new knowledge which would eventually benefits capitalists. For example anyone getting sick can no longer be treated at home because we lost all that old knowledge. The new knowledge has a lot of disadvantages.

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    The Cost of Losing Ancestral Wisdom

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    The Great Knowledge Migration from Hearth to Hospital

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