welcome to the gift economy @ bioneers

Welcome to

The Gift Economy

Tom TresserNovember 2012

“Our core values statement is now official.”

Assertion: Business schools played a contributing role in creating the geniuses who brought us the economic meltdown of 2008.

Authors ask ”whether business schools do a good job of alerting students to the imperfections and incompleteness of the models and frameworks they teach.”

Q: What is valuable?

Activity #1 Text the amount of the total student

debt in your family (you, your kids, your siblings)to this number:

312-544-0390

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Linus Torvalds

Crowdsourcing Change

• 8,000 contributors since 2005• Total 15 million lines of code written for free.• $3 billion contributed labor!

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28,000 projects

uploaded for sharing!

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• produce use-value through the free cooperation of producers who have access to distributed capital. Its product is not exchange value for a market, but use-value for a community of users. PRODUCE VALUABLE STUFF FOR GIFTING.

• are governed by the community of producers themselves, and not by market allocation or corporate hierarchy.COMMUNITY-ASSIGNED MERIT EARNED.

• make use-value freely accessible on a universal basis, through new common property regimes. This is its distribution or 'peer property mode': a 'third mode of ownership,' different from private property or public (state) property. VIRAL DISTRIBUTION VIA UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE NETWORKS.

Peer-To-Peer Processes are…

Activity #2 Using the sticky notes, write down

something (or some things) you would like to offer to the people in this room. This could be some stuff, a service or money. Please put your name and phone number or a way to be contacted.

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Activity #2

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“A person first starts to live when he can live outside himself, when he can have as much regard for his fellow man as he does for himself. I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make this world a better place than the one he found. Life is a gift, and if we agree to accept it, we must contribute in return. When we fail to contribute; we fail to adequately answer why we are here.”

-Albert Einstein

Tom Tresser312-804-3230

tom@tresser.com@tomstee

www.civiclab.us@civiclabchicago