@neil you're right that #OpenSource depends of a huge community of individuals (and some corporate entities) cooperating together in what is the world's largest #GiftEconomy.
But I think there is a huge difference to being beholden to and dependent on thousands of our own peers — ordinary people of good will who choose to share — than on one corporation whose sole purpose is to extract as much profit from us as they can wring.
We talked to People's Plumbing of Cleveland, who are running their #WorkerCoop on a #GiftEconomy model!
Digesting Food Studies—Episode 116: Social Economy of Food
https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2555303/
Sharing, gifting, and informal economies have been around forever, and they might be seeing a new resurgence that offers promise for the long-term.
This episode helps re-think and reorient ourselves towards creating integrated value exchanges beyond just the financial kind. Alexia Moyer provides gifts from Sandro Botticelli and Catherine Parr Traill, and guest editor Irena Knezevic talks about “The social and informal economy of food” issue of Canadian Food Studies. (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3).
Finally, Christophe Dubois shares his thoughts on social gastronomy and Mary Anne Martin’s use of feminist theory to explore urban agriculture.
#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodPodcast
#SocialEconomy
#GiftEconomy
#Sharing
#Boticelli
#CatherineParrTraill
#FemaleEmigrantsGuide
#SocialGastronomy
#FeministTheory
#UrbanAgriculture
#FruitRescue
#FoodStudies
#Academia
Year without Toothbrush, Toothpaste or Floss 🦷
Which twigs can you use to brush: Miswak or Neem 🌿
You knew this before?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXwyMKIp1oE
#sustainableliving #dentalhealth #livingwithoutmoney #gifteconomy #foraging
How Solarpunk Could Solve Capitalism's Major Greed Problem
"What of we took TrustRoots, this couchsurfing-like sharing platform, and rebuilt it on a permissionless, open social protocol. So they're in the process of rewriting TrustRoots so it runs on the Nostr open social protocols. So that it... doesn't have the problem that happened with CouchSurfing[.com]. So that it isn't owned by just one person - the creator - but it is... held in common by the community... who are hosts..."
@rabble, 2025
https://revolution.social/episodes/think-like-a-commoner-author-david-bollier-on-the-/
Abolishing Money, Nations, and Families (Marriage)
Listen, Think & Move 🧠
#Freeeconomy #resourcebasedeconomy #rbe #ubi #gifteconomy #openaccesseconomy #freeworld #eattherich #tradelesssociety #moneylesssociety
#anarchism #anarchocommunism #communism #socialism #libertarianism
#antiwork #Donatetimenotmoney #volunteering
#humanity #simpleliving
#solarpunk
lovely guide 
'How to start a free store in your community'
https://www.shareable.net/how-to/how-to-start-a-free-store-in-your-community/
#community #gifteconomy #freestore #becomeungovernable #alternative #economy
The gift economy predates commerce — voluntary connection without ledgers or calendar mandates. Then marketing discovered it could sell obligation back to us as tradition.
Christmas gatherings reveal what persists underneath: candies made by hand, genuine listening, rare moments when someone actually wants to know what you think.
Not scheduled. Not obligatory. Just real.
🔗 https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/blog/2025-12-24-gift-beneath-transaction/
#GiftEconomy #Christmas #Voluntaryism #AntiConsumerism #Sovereignty #Authenticity #Philosophy
Simon Brooke
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