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You're not talking about gifts, you're talking about a gift economy. If we lived in a pre-monetary society, we could use loose accounting to keep track of debts
by fluoridation 3y ago
You're not talking about gifts, you're talking about a gift economy. If we lived in a pre-monetary society, we could use loose accounting to keep track of debts. I get fish from the fisherman, and in exchange I help fix his boat when needed. The village doctor heals everyone, and in exchange he gets stuff he needs from everyone. Someone can slack for a bit, but they do it for too long they'll accrue too high a debt and people will no longer give them things.
Well, we don't live in a pre-monetary society and we don't use loose accounting, except with people we're close with and who we can trust.
- Dylan16807 3y agoI'm saying they deserve value back even outside of a gift economy. In a monetary economy, contracts don't fit every situation, and someone deciding they don't want to make people pay for valuable code shouldn't ruin their ability to use that code as a "day job". We need to figure out better methods to reward useful work, as a society.
- altairprime 3y agoOr, we need to pay everyone a universal basic income, so that they don’t need to take revenue into account when choosing what value to contribute to society.