Wednesday, December 2, 2020

GIFT ECONOMIES: CHALLENGING THE LOGIC OF CAPITALISM

https://afsee.atlanticfellows.org/blog/della-duncan-giving-economies: "For a gift economy to work, we have to learn how to receive. We can feel quite vulnerable when receiving a gift. It challenges the capitalist sense of autonomy and rugged individualism. It ties us to the gift-giver. But it also gives us a sense of belonging and connection in an increasingly atomised and disconnected world."