Re:A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
by mikem170 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @07:34PM
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> This "gift economy" sounds someone trying to put a nobel spin on a debt based economy.
I saw that same connection myself. Gifts, aka favors, aka "you owe me one", aka debts.
> This gift based economy just sounds like a passive aggressive debt based economy, and it doesn't sound real.
I brought this up initially (near the top of this thread) in response to someone who couldn't imagine an economy without without money. Such things have existed, as per anthropologists.
I saw that same connection myself. Gifts, aka favors, aka "you owe me one", aka debts.
> This gift based economy just sounds like a passive aggressive debt based economy, and it doesn't sound real.
I brought this up initially (near the top of this thread) in response to someone who couldn't imagine an economy without without money. Such things have existed, as per anthropologists.