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When siblings disagree about commercializing inherited wisdom

My sister and I inherited our grandfather's knowledge of traditional herbal medicine, but she wants to formalize it into a business while I feel like that commodifies something sacred, and now we barely speak.

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Two inheritors of traditional knowledge are discovering that their different relationships to modern economic systems threaten both their bond and their lineage.

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