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What Are People For?: Essays is a nonfiction essay collection by Wendell Berry, originally gathered from pieces written between the mid-1970s and 1990. The book belongs to environmental criticism, cultural criticism, and agrarian thought rather than a single academic discipline, and its central purpose is to examine what human life should be for in a society shaped by industrial growth, consumerism, and technological expansion. Berry writes from the combined perspective of farmer, poet, and social critic, which gives the essays both practical grounding and moral seriousness. Across the collection, he argues that people cannot be understood apart from place, work, community, and the natural world. The essays challenge economic systems that treat land, labor, and culture as interchangeable commodities, while also defending local responsibility, household economy, and the dignity of work connected to living communities.