" Sometimes, indeed, it seemed to me that the really important exchange was the freedom, with the mushroom-and-money trophies as extensions– proofs, as it were– of the performance. After all, it was the feeling of freedom, galvanizing "mushroom fever," that energized buyers to put on their best shows and pressed pickers to get up the next dawn to search for mushrooms again. "

― Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing , The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins