The Economics of Gift Cultures in the Society of Creative and Acronym

In the SCA, partly because I'm playing the role of a medieval person. And at least in some medieval cultures, you have the idea that nobles don't work for money. But also sort of the feel of it is that I feel as though it makes sense to do favors and not to do things for money. It somehow didn't seem appropriate in terms of my interact with other people, hobby, hobby to be doing it for money. So quite a while ago, I put up an offer on Facebook to other SCA people that if somebody was making jewelry actually based on medieval jewelry, I would donate gemstones for them. Again, it just felt more nearly right to me to