When I speak about reciprocity as a relationship, let me be clear. I don't mean bilateral exchange in which an obligation is incurred, and can then be discharged with a reciprocal "payment". I mean keeping the gift in motion, in a way that is open and diffuse, so that the gift does not accumulate and stagnate, but keeps moving [...].
-- Robin Wall Kimmerer "The Serviceberry"
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In a gift economy, wealth is understood as having enough to share, and the practice for dealing with abundance is to give it away: In fact, status is determined not by how much one accumulates, but by how much one gives away. The currency in a gift economy is relationship, which is expressed as gratitude, as interdependence and the ongoing cycles of reciprocity. [...] the economic unit is "we" rather than "I", as all flourishing is mutual.
-- Robin Wall Kimmerer "The Serviceberry"
5/7
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