TEDxIIT - Tom Tresser - The Gift Economy
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Tom Tresser is a self-styled creativity champion and defender of the commons. He's been a Shakespearean actor, Internet start-up refugee and community organizer. He ran for Cook County Board President in 2010 on a campaign of reform, innovation and social justice. He teaches classes on creativity and social change at the Stuart School of Business. Currently, he is involved in creating his 13th nonprofit enterprise - The CivicLab, a store front space for civic engagement.
About the talk
Tom Tresser proposes the idea of a Gift Economy. The economy gains momentum when people start to offer something that they have as a gift, in the forms of product, service or cash, free to the community without any strings attached.
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Getting the audience involved in the subject of the talk ("Gift Economy") by creating a gift economy on the spot, during the talk, with the audience, is brilliant. Tom Tresser doesn't just talk about it, he does it. Everyone who gives a talk to any audience should take their lead from Tom Tresser.
Love this! When we lose our lives we do find our new life indeed.
As an anarcho-communist I completely agree with a gift economy.
We just didn't talk about The Gift Economy at TDxIIT, we created one. We asked all the participants to offer some good or service to their fellow attendees, We set up easels and had Post-It notes available. For the rest of the day people crowded around the boards posting offerings that ranged from teaching language to help with marketing and career plans to cooking classes and hugs! 85% of those attending made offers. Now we are following up to see if their offers were taken up.
Why was some of the footage cut at 3:30? I hate it when that happens, it makes me suspect that the footage might be taken out of context a bit. Oh well.
Love it! Let us think of money as oxygen, and all of us as cells in a body. Its value lies in circulation. Our flawed world and economy produce imbalance and sickness because we don't trust and share, but instead we fear and resist the flow. We allow our egos to latch on to things and wrap our identity in objects. We set up blocks and dams and make tourniquets and cut off the flow to parts of our body, while some cells horde and gorge themselves, and become like cancer.
Money is a symbolic construct, a tool of exchange of goods and services. It's value is realized when it is exchanged, when it moves and flows like water, refreshing and cleansing and rejuvenating. This is the way of nature and of God and of ancient divine scripture -- the rain falls on everyone. We are to let our fields rest, leave a portion for our Planetary Family, the birds and insects and critters. And take care of our poor--the children and infirm and elderly disabled. We're not supposed to poison the land so that the life can be wrung out of it, by keeping producing 24/7.
In the Sacred Gifting Economy lie the seeds of the futurist Star Trek economy envisioned by Gene Roddenberry. Relax. Let go of fear. There is no such thing as lack. There's plenty enough to go around for everyone.
Money is just an illusion. Resources are real thing. We do not need money to realize the value of resources. We do not need money to exchange. We just need to share the things according to need of each one. We need to do the work we love and let it be useful to everyone.That is the way of Gift Economy. That is it!
God bless! Thanks for your contributions
I like the idea, but the lecture didn't resonate with me.
It is a shame that the speaker acts like a motivational speaker. It is grating and distasteful. These are excellent ideas. Why tarnish them by using indoctrination techniques/tactics of motivational con men?
This talk is horrible. I'm in agreement with many of the ideas behind a gift economy, but you can't force people to participate in one. A "gift" is a poor gift if you're obliged to make it. Furthermore, the idea of Kickstarter being an example of the gift economy in action is laughable, most Kickstarter campaigns are based around pre-orders, it's just a shop where the goods don't quite exist yet.
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