b'1 pound of cotton. Today, conventional cotton production uses very large quantities of pesticides: Cultivated on 2.5% of the worlds crop-land, cotton accounts for almost a quarter of all pesticide use, with many of those pesticides among the most toxic, including aldicarb, phorate, methamidophos and endosulfan. And the struggle to dominate the boll weevil spurred the development of techniques for the genetic modification of crops. The story of agriculture may seem far afield from what is happening in Wuhan and Minneapolis, today, and what happened on Fifth Avenue in 1970. But it is all of a piece, all of the same economic fabric. No wonder some of us dont cotton to one another. . .Centuries of commodification and industrialization have taken a toll that is difficult to reckon. Centuries of buying low and selling high have given some of us 400-thread-count cotton sheets, but left all of us to ask: At what cost? Centuries of prioritizing transactions over relation-ships have left us all a bit mad.We say were mad as hell and were not going take it anymore. Yet, we continue to fill our cupboards with ultra-processed food, our heads with ultra-processed information and our portfoliosthose of us lucky enough to have portfolioswith ultra-processed securities. Individually and collectively, we continue to place our bets in the global casino, pushed by the sense that we have no alternative and pulled by the prospects that the daily numbers will keep going up.Its not that we are selfish or greedy. Most are not. We just want enough, even though this is as elusive as systemic change. In Money 15'