Insistence on Subsistence
Finance and the war on subsistence
Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid (all the way back from 1902), Ivan Illich's Conviviality (1973), and Marie Mies et al’s Subsistence (1999) are all kin to indigenous ways such as Buen Vivir, Ubuntu etc., but the earlier set has a stronger and more contemporary critique of capitalism.
The current narrative defangs that solid critique by tokenizing it while claiming something original is being said.
This sort of cover-up plagiarism - a recent example of this is how white feminists took over the activism of black women in the US; bell hooks has written about it - would have been innocuous had it not been for the stakes involved: genocide, climate catastrophe, nuclear holocaust.
Capitalism cannot survive without ignoring, dismissing and finally destroying subsistence. This is one of the primary takeaways from Maria Mies, Silvia Federici et al’s work.
Microcredit and now financial inclusion is just the most recent iteration of this war on subsistence: first they reduce everything to wage relations, pauperize the Others, esp. women and nature, and now they want to take it further by i) discrediting the age-old ways how ordinary people have helped each other out, and ii) eking out further profits from the already ten-times-over marginalized.
(Climate enters the picture once we bring in the most recent 'agendas' of financial inclusion.)