Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #76

Many indigenous communities operated on the principle of reciprocal gift giving. Say you were a baker who needed another pair of shoes; you wouldn’t go to the shoemaker and offer some flour for a pair of shoes. Rather, you might drop a hint to the shoemaker’s wife at some point that your current shoes were falling apart and hope she’d say “Oh you p... See more

The proper role of commerce is to both exploit and absorb those shocks, passing some of the velocity and wealth on to the development of new infrastructure, but respecting the deeper rhythms of governance and culture.

For any being or any system to thrive, giving and receiving must be in a state of balance. The balance is not rigid or static; it is a state of dynamic equilibrium.