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The Gift Economy and the Social Economy
The gift isn't money right it's not like that kind of universal alienating form that marks analyzes where you have one thing that stands in for everything else and has no connection to the maker or even the consumer. The gift creates social relations right where you give something to someone you may not have an expectation of a return in kind but it creates this circulation in which other gifts will be givenRight I think we could like imagine gifts along those lines too of like giving up on ideas of self-sufficiency as something that was like produces no waste and think about the sort of wasteful ways that we can interact in the world. This is something I actually wanted to say going back to relationships is