Check this one out, if you want to think about the gift economy in an even broader sense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpxTCuc6kFc
Check this one out, if you want to think about the gift economy in an even broader sense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpxTCuc6kFc
Really cute!
As Cicero said, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
LOL - that is so cute!
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Just got a chance to watch the wolf video. Wow!!! I know that cause and effect is pretty much endless, and this is a great example!
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
Be nice whenever possible. It's always possible. HH Dalai Lama
In a world where you can be anything - be kind. Unknown
Agreed, it is amazing of how easily checks and balances get thrown out of kilter by seemingly unrelated issues.Originally Posted by happystuff
As Cicero said, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
Yeah, I posted the wolf and the monkey videos because I think Catherine's original post is asking questions that need a higher level of consciousness to solve than what we currently bring to economic structures. That higher level of consciousness must take into account the actual natural world we live in--how do we arrive at new ways to live peaceably on the earth, which I think is part of the bigger questions that the original post is asking.
Exactly, Tybee.
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Studies about animals are endlessly fascinating. Years ago Freakanomics told the story about some researchers at Yale that had taught capuchin monkeys about money. Every day the researchers would bring a tray of coins into the monkey's compound, pass it out, and then sell the monkeys grapes and bananas and such. One day one of the monkeys performed a heist. As the researcher entered the enclosure the monkey knocked the tray of coins out of the researcher's hands and coins flew everywhere. In the same way the people witnessing a brinks truck spilling dollar bills everywhere would scramble to collect whatever they could the monkeys ran around and grabbed up the coins since they now had been trained of the value of money. One of the male monkeys then approached one of the female monkeys and offered her a coin. She took it and let him have sex with her. Once they were finished she presented her coin to the researcher to get a few grapes. And now apparently capuchin monkeys had discovered prostitution.
This made me laugh jp.
I realize a gift economy is a real real different way at looking at economics.
But I will say this. Every time I listen to real economists, PhD level people, they go into the weeds and I cannot understand what they are talking about. I think it’s because they make so many references to principles in their field that have names I do not recognize. But that’s only part of it. Truly the concepts have been beyond me.
This happened to me a couple times in the past year where I start into Podcasts and get lost within 10-15 minutes. Theoretical economists speak a different language. I mean it’s like chemists or physicists, but I expect those disciplines to be beyond me, not econ.
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