the gift economy + report of prototype
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Tom Tresser made this presentation on the ift Economy at TEDxIIT 2012 - http://mypages.iit.edu/~tedxiit/welcome.html - and then established a gift exchange in the lobby. 82 of the 100 attendees signed up to give an item or a service to the other attendees. [email protected], http://www.tresser.comTRANSCRIPT
Gaining Momentum…
The Gift Economy
Tom TresserApril 2012
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“Our core values statement is now official.”
Assertion: Business schools played a contributing role in creating the geniuses who brought us the economic meltdown of 2008.
Authors ask ”whether business schools do a good job of alerting students to the imperfections and incompleteness of the models and frameworks they teach.”
Q: What is valuable?
Activity #1
Use the green file card to write down the total amount of student debt you will be carrying when you graduate from school.
• produce use-value through the free cooperation of producers who have access to distributed capital. Its product is not exchange value for a market, but use-value for a community of users. PRODUCE VALUABLE STUFF FOR GIFTING.
• are governed by the community of producers themselves, and not by market allocation or corporate hierarchy.COMMUNITY-ASSIGNED MERIT EARNED.
• make use-value freely accessible on a universal basis, through new common property regimes. This is its distribution or 'peer property mode': a 'third mode of ownership,' different from private property or public (state) property. VIRAL DISTRIBUTION VIA UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE NETWORKS.
Peer-To-Peer Processes are…
Activity #2
Using the sticky notes, write down something (or some things) you would like to offer to the people in this room. This could be some stuff, a service or money. Please put your name and phone number or a way to be contacted.
“A person first starts to live when he can live outside himself, when he can have as much regard for his fellow man as he does for himself. I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make this world a better place than the one he found. Life is a gift, and if we agree to accept it, we must contribute in return. When we fail to contribute; we fail to adequately answer why we are here.”
-Albert Einstein
The Gift Economy Prototype @ TEDxIIT 2012
We set up three boards in the lobby – one for offers of stuff, one for offers of services and one for people to note their student debt.
The Gift Economy Prototype @ TEDxIIT 2012
The Gift Economy Prototype @ TEDxIIT 2012
The Gift Economy Prototype @ TEDxIIT 2012
The Gift Economy Prototype @ TEDxIIT 2012
In addition, 11 students reported a total student debt of $321,000 or about $29,000/student.
The Gift Economy Prototype @ TEDxIIT 2012
82 of 100 attendees
made offers!
