Original sentence: Conversely, in fiction, the roots of "subsistence economy" may be traced back to the originally mythological "Endless Summer", before we lost track of how to deal with change, or, with respect to a different point of view, preceding the change of seasons altogether, as being able to cope with our inherent abundance.If we do not over-harvest it might be possible to rid ourselves of only thinking in terms of supply and demand.The pessimist will retort that, just in case of a long winter, we might want to stock-pile some goods.There is credence to this, however, when people start getting greedy, wanting to short people on the future availability of stock, well, then we find ourselves in our current situation, trying to control or manipulate the passage of time at our own expense.This is like gambling on whether or not your grandchild has the right to be born in a world that is free, or, simply entitled for slaves (yes, not to...).To obtain this synchronicity with time, its alternations and self-same differences, we can start by realizing our abundance to not be greedy