Posts Tagged ‘gift economy’
Gift economy is not just about giving things away
I want to clear something up. When I talk about gift economy, people sometimes hear: everything is free, nobody gets paid, everyone just gives and gives until they have nothing left. That is not what I mean. That is actually the opposite of what I mean. The gift economy I am building toward is one…
Read MoreThe gift economy is not naive. It is how we actually lived.
Every time I talk about gift economy, someone assumes I have not thought it through. That I am romantic. That I do not understand how the real world works. That eventually I will grow up and accept that everything has a price. I want to address that directly. Because the evidence is on my side,…
Read MoreWhen movements eat their own
She could barely walk. That is the first image I have of her. A woman who had given fifty years to a wildlife sanctuary, and me choosing to stay and give everything I had. An honest story about what that cost, what it taught me, and why it became the foundation of Shikibuntu.
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