A Participant on Shared Fruit Trees | Bangkok
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0:00A: I guess the deepest public good is kind of like each other, right? Like what we can do for each other. A lot of really rich people try and like buy essentially security, right? You buy another piece of land, you buy another visa because you’re like, just in case something happens, I have that backup, right? But that doesn’t end because you’re always going to have that kind of security. Whereas like if you think about peace as a public good and kind of like you have a stable configuration of people who have ways of resolving disputes, right, then you don’t need those 10 condominiums, right? So like a lot of public goods, I think, are also things that kind of emerge, not as goods by themselves, but kind of like out of state of relationships and other things like that.
0:00A: I’m reminded of sayings like, the best place to store surplus wealth is in the stomachs of your neighbors, right? Or if you have a fruit tree, that’s one of the best ways to get neighbors, right? Get good neighbors, because you can never finish all your fruit tree by yourself. You have to kind of share it, and that kind of creates those kinds of relationships, right? So I guess the deepest public good is kind of like each other, right? Like what we can do for each other.
