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Gifting Economy

My View

Alt text to go here I am using the gift economy in the work I do for others. That means that you pay me what you think the value of the work is I do for you.
It is just that simple: needs, gifts, and gratitude. But the effects can be profound.

Social Media's Gift Economy

Giving and receiving

To understand a gift economy, consider the example of moving into a new apartment. When friends help you move, you express your appreciation by providing pizza and beer — really good pizza and beer. When you hire professional movers, you pay with money. Offer your friends money instead of pizza and beer, and they are likely to be offended. Offer to pay the movers in pizza and beer, and they won't unload the truck. Your friends are operating in a gift economy; the movers in a market economy.
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Building Community

Economy of gifts

Alt text to go hereWherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is "community." What happened to community, and why don't we have it any more? There are many reasons—the layout of suburbia, the disappearance of public space, the automobile and the television, the high mobility of people and jobs—and, if you trace the "whys" a few levels down, they all implicate the money system.
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For Facebook

A Modest Proposal

Alt text to go hereThe problem of how to make money off its user base is not unique to Facebook. Some ways that websites make money are as follows, and all of them are problematic:
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Wikipedia

Gift Economy

Alt text to go hereA gift economy, gift culture or gift exchange is a mode of exchange where valuables are given for cultural reasons without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards.
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A video

The Permaculture Song

Posted Thu, 01/13/2011 - 10:18 by jimw

In case you wanted to know what permaculture is, here is a song to help you.

Indiana - Parents told to leave disabled kids at shelter

Posted Fri, 10/29/2010 - 14:04 by jimw

"However, that's exactly what Becky Holladay of Battle Ground, Ind., said a BDDS worker told her when she called to ask about the waiver she's seeking for her 22-year-old son, Cameron Dunn, who has epilepsy, autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-disabled-homeless,0,4867135...

chicagotribune.com

Indiana
Parents told to leave disabled kids at shelters
By KEN KUSMER

Associated Press
4:26 PM CDT, October 27, 2010

INDIANAPOLIS

Indiana's budget crunch has become so severe that some state workers have suggested leaving severely disabled people at homeless shelters if they can't be cared for at home, parents and advocates said.

They said workers at Indiana's Bureau of Developmental Disabilities Services have told parents that's one option they have when families can no longer care for children at home and haven't received Medicaid waivers that pay for services that support disabled children living independently.

What is a paraprosdokian?

Posted Thu, 10/28/2010 - 18:41 by jimw

A paraprosdokian (from Greek "????-", meaning "beyond" and "?????????", meaning "expectation") is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists.

Some paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but also play on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a syllepsis.

  • I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
  • Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
  • I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
  • Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
  • The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.

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