"Well, your network gift economy is undermining the lawful,
government approved, regulated economy!"
That's why the Dawes commission disbanded the Indian Nations and outlawed
our religions. Today when we've come back to those practices we are so
inculcated by the economic value structure that the religions don't fit.
They are pro-human potential and based in human growth but the Western
Economics ties the purposes to profit and not to the development of a skill
of competency. That's why many traditional priests don't do sweat lodges
and other ceremonials with non-Indians. Rather than discovering how they
are different after the experience the non-Indians want to know whether the
endurance was "worth" it.
REH
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Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 6:12 PM
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Subject: [Futurework] Re: A robot stole my job
Sandwichman wrote:
> The core idea is that the objective world of buying and selling that
> we experience is an artificial construct based on the zero-sum
> notion that "what's mine is mine and what's yours is yours." So
> absolutely more for you is less for me, even if exchange makes us
> both relatively better off. In a gift economy, though, more for you
> is more for me because there is a social obligation of generosity.
Bruce Sterling's short story, "Maneki Neko", [1] draws an entertaining
picture of a gift economy and the hysterical hostility with which it's
regarded by those deeply inculcated with (or indentured to) the
currently conventional business and political ethic.
[1] Full text at http://tqft.net/wiki/Maneki_Neko.
Save the page and insert double spaces between paragraphs with
your favorite text editor to make it more readable.
Tsuyoshi blinked. "Look, I don't know anything about all
that. I'm just living my life."
"Well, your network gift economy is undermining the lawful,
government approved, regulated economy!"
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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