How a Surprisingly Anti-Capitalist Self-Help Book Could Help Deepen Our Democracy Pete Davisâs âDedicatedâ makes the case for how prioritizing community over corporations could benefit us all. In the past ten years, Iâve lived in seventeen different places. Most of these are from hopping between apartments in college, but it still represents six different citiesâfive different times I decided I would reinvent myself by changing jobs, changing climates, and changing friends. Before I moved to Michigan, where I am now, I told my friends to expect to soon hear from the âMichigan versionâ of myself. She would be betterâsheâd finally join a community garden and learn whatâs going on in local politics. And she would actually text them back. But, of course, on the other side of every move was the same personânow with a bigger (and looser) network of friends and acquaintances across the country.