If kickstarter paid for this project to be created, why not offer the content for free? Is the goal to help others create substainable living places to live, or generate money for ones self? Workshops were paid to attend? Double dip I see.
paul wheaton wrote:I wonder .... does the gift economy only exist within capitalism? It seems that people wish to replace capitalism with gift economy. But if there is no capitalism, it would seem that there is no longer such a thing as a gift.
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The sweetness of spring-fruit, the savor as cake
Which doth spring up unasked for, in loveliness rise,
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Ann Torrence wrote:A great explanation of capitalism was in one of my college textbooks, yes still in print and a comic book at that:
Marx for Beginners
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We started a biotech business because of a failure in the gift economy.
For his science, makes molecular markers in his lab. Because part of his work is federally funded, he is required by law to make them available to others in his field (he can't squash others' science by not sharing technology). He is not required to give them away; the university can also license his ideas and products to be sold through the free market. Back in 1995, he got a phone call from a colleague and friend:
Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
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Invasive plants are Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines. Stephen Herrod Buhner
Everyone learns what works by learning what doesn't work. Stephen Herrod Buhner
To be is to do …Kant
To do is to be ..Nietzsche
Do be do be do…Sinatra
Invasive plants are Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines. Stephen Herrod Buhner
Everyone learns what works by learning what doesn't work. Stephen Herrod Buhner
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