Every Society organizes itself socially, politically. and economically according to its' values. Yet most of us are in conflict with the values rewarded by our financial markets. In fact, our society is displaying all of the signs of mental illness as it tries to disassemble the values and beliefs that most of us have, from those that drive the financial system. We can not continue to act in contradiction to what we believe. To accept this mythology is to give justification to the human suffering species extinction or the destruction of the planet.
Economies are systems designed by people.
Like any man made system they can be redesigned. Instead of rewarding competition and accumulation we could reward cooperation and sharing. To do this the fundamental economic beliefs scarcity of resources and individual insatiable appetites would have to change. Indigenous economics has as the core beliefs within its design a prosperity of resources and kinship based enoughness. Indigenous economic systems rewarded wide distribution of wealth and cooperation.