Our shared Values

Everything changes, but that doesn’t mean we have to lose ourselves in the process. Between what fades and what is born, we seek to care for what connects us: empathy, joy, and the desire to live well together. We believe in the power of communities to imagine different futures—where sharing and learning become ways to create more life, not more competition. In every encounter, in every act of care, a crack opens through which a new world can enter.

We live within a system that teaches us to compete more than to care, to produce more than to feel, and to have more than to share. Capitalism seeps into our routines, our relationships, and even into how we measure the value of things. But there are other ways of living—slower, closer, more human. We choose to bet on those other ways, which can take many forms. The struggles we engage in are not separate: they intersect, accompany, and strengthen one another, like roots growing beneath the same soil.

The redistribution of material resources — often money — is a central pillar of Gringo Tax. We see money as an important tool to move through the world we live in, but not as an end in itself. What truly sustains a community is not the amount of money that circulates, but the bonds of meaning, support, and hope woven around the mobilization of material resources that help solve concrete problems. In this sense, the way we choose to distribute material resources is an expression of deeper values.

Empathy, kindness, and care are at the heart of what we do. To care not only means to accompany or protect, but also to know how to plant, let things grow, and, when the time comes, let go. We are driven by the desire to weave communities where sharing something can help new forms of life bloom. We believe that redistributing resources and energy not only changes what we have, but also how we relate to one another. In doing so, we regenerate bonds, create space for hope, and resist a system that often wants to keep us apart.

Learning, questioning, and caring for one another in community is also a form of resistance. From there, we affirm that another world is not only imaginable— it is built day by day, in small acts of care, in honest conversations, and in the networks we weave among those of us who believe that life can be more shared, more just, and more joyful.

— GTSF, January 2026