michel on gift econ
via michel bauwens tweet [https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1845046261768126691]:
* Flavia Macedo on post-monetary forms of allocating tasks:
“Post-monetary: If the narrative of separation is the root cause of the metacrisis, the monetary system is the conductor of fragmentation. Noubel argues that “collective intelligence will be unable to thrive as long as its participants are obliged to compete with one another in attaining this scarce resource called money”. The scarcity and competition we currently face when forced to ‘earn a living’ (as if we haven’t already been gifted with life) are artificial properties of money, created and maintained by those in power to control those who don’t have it.
Even if we design an alternative currency, free from the competition, subjugation, power dynamics, wealth accumulation, and exploitative permissions embedded in present money, it would be much harder to cleanse ourselves from the problematic logic and habits we have for trading, dehumanizing transactions, materialistically storing value, and extrinsically motivating work. Rather, if the goal is to allow the emergence of collective intelligence, we should use the economic model inherent in it, the gift economy..t
1 – what if goal isn’t collective intell?.. augmenting collective intelligence et al.. what if intellectness is a cancerous distraction
2 – what if gift\ness is same song as money.. any form of m\a\p
In a gift economy, exchanges and transactions are done without an auxiliary currency and the *motivations are mostly intrinsic..t **It works because as humans we have many social psychological drivers of contribution, such as reciprocity, talent recognition, sense of duty, intellectual stimulation, curiosity, tutoring, skills-building, reputation, social status within a community of peers, collective identity, hedonic pleasure, increased human capital, sense of efficacy, playfulness, artistical devotion, spiritual rewards, love, among others..t When coordinating within a gift economy ***each participant finds a strong individual advantage that motivates him to give the best of himself, allowing the convergence between individual and collective interests..t ****The more you give as products and services, the greater your wealth, and the greater your likelihood to receive in return, t as each transaction is highly personal.
*red flag – need itch-in-the-soul over motivation ness
itch over motivation
**cancerous distractions: reciprocity, recognition, duty, intellectual stimulation, reputation, status, collective id, rewards..
***ginorm red flag: advantage motivates him won’t get to real interest (itches).. need a diff means for that.. ie: listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
****tit for tat ness.. no matter how obscured..
According to Noubel, the gift economy is one of the main qualities found in communities where original collective intelligence is at work, along with an emerging whole, holopticism, social contracts, polymorphic social architecture, circulating objects-link, and a learning organization. Even though the gift economy has been a natural aspect of human collaboration, present in many indigenous and traditional societies, it was obscured by colonialism and the modern economic system. Thanks to cyberspace and the peer-to-peer movement it has recently regained traction as it overcame geographical limitations and reached large scales.”
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be you. 