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Gift Economies / Economics IMPROOVE
posted 7 hours ago by bluewhiteandred on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +8Score on mirror )
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Gift Economy: "A gift economy is a system of exchange where valuables are given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards."

Any ideas for how these could be expanded to help frens or people in general?

An example might be this forum or Wikipedia: lots of anons volunteer info that they freely share, and people also freely share valuable info they can find - there's a kind of give and take that's kind of "freely done" (besides hosting costs)

A material example that comes to mind is those little free libraries, where people freely pick up and drop off books for people to read.

It's not really a "captialist" or "Communist" idea, kind of independent of an economic system.

Any thoughts on gift economies or how we might mutually give-and-take to build better things in the world?
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Delroy on scored.co
1 hour ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
I love the idea, but the problem is it attracts Jews and shitskins like shit attracts flies. I would totally give my time to help Whites in need, but its always a bunch of Somalians or something. I've found the only way is direct, person to person. Make friends with your neigbors and offer to lend a hand if they ever need it.
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steele2 on scored.co
7 hours ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
Anyone who's analyzed the difference between the White race and shitskins react to moves know White people express pure joy when exposed to new concepts (art or understandings) whereas monkey feels nothing.

Monkey knows they're expected to respond because of the music queues, so they almost always pretend to cry because they don't really know what to do.

The White race loves to share ideas and loves to learn new things, which makes knowledge gift economics a function of White culture. Films, libraries, teachers, etc.

But I'm unsure how goods or services can be exchanged freely without explicit agreement or bartering because all White people value different things.

White people support the entire industry of church based charity work and helping homeless who fly signs at intersections, keeping homeless people fed and warm and valued... but this is charity rather than an gift economics. Even if you recognize spiritual health as an implicit value, it's still just charity.

White people also run farmers markets which often involves bartering for goods and services rather than money, but this isn't gift economics by your definition because the exchange is explicit.

I'm unsure what your "gift economy" is if it's not charity or bartering?

Perhaps you can provide a few examples of classic gift economics that doesn't involve the implicit exchange of knowledge?
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bluewhiteandred on scored.co
6 hours ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
could be thought of as charity, although sometimes it is more give-and-take that's unlike charity, but not quite barter?

Charity: freely giving something to someone in need (one direction)

Barter: trading a thing for a thing

gift economy: can kind of be a mix of the above? I give you a gift, you feel a reciprocal "obligation / desire" to give back, but you don't have to. you could though, but it's not like it was a barter trade of a thing-for-a-thing.
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steele2 on scored.co
6 hours ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Sounds like workplace secret-Santa.

But without exchanging money and without being explicit, I can't get past the flaw of not knowing if what you're exchanging is subjectively valuable to the other person.

A single homeless man may desperately want food while exchanging handmade wind-chimes for a wheelchair, polished river stones and oil change vouchers.

I don't find such an economy viable because everyone would reject exchanging something valuable for something subjectively worthless. Everyone would say no.

And all it would take is one greedy fuck to start exchanging ordinary tree leaves for legitimate items - it would fail as quickly as communism when the workers realize there's no benefit in work hard.

[They could exchange the items they don't value in the hope of getting food, but that's just bartering with extra steps.](https://a.pinatafarm.com/1258x710/6f4d8d3bd2/rick-and-morty-extra-steps.jpg)
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