Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 07, 2004 04:59 AM
You have made an absolute assertion without any backing. This does not strengthen your position.
Gift economies are not stupid. A gift economy is the best economic system, for a small number of instances. But it is perfectly legitimate, and has worked well in the few instances where it has been used.
Most of human society has grown in scarcity environments. Hence the rarity of gift economies. But nonetheless, there have still been several cases, for hundreds of years, where a gift economy has been suitable. In these instances, it has worked very well. The best example of this is the scientific community. And as a scientist (mathematical physicist) I can testify that a gift economy is by far the best system for the scientific community.
Gift economies have existed for a long time, and are well studied. In the cases where they apply, they work very well. Personally I believe that software development is a good place for a gift economy, for the same reasons that it is so for science.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 07, 2004 04:59 AMGift economies are not stupid. A gift economy is the best economic system, for a small number of instances. But it is perfectly legitimate, and has worked well in the few instances where it has been used.
Most of human society has grown in scarcity environments. Hence the rarity of gift economies. But nonetheless, there have still been several cases, for hundreds of years, where a gift economy has been suitable. In these instances, it has worked very well. The best example of this is the scientific community. And as a scientist (mathematical physicist) I can testify that a gift economy is by far the best system for the scientific community.
Gift economies have existed for a long time, and are well studied. In the cases where they apply, they work very well. Personally I believe that software development is a good place for a gift economy, for the same reasons that it is so for science.
Daniel Carrera.
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