The Gift Economy + Report of Prototype

Gaining Momentum… The Gift Economy Tom Tresser April 2012 Watch all the presentations @http://new.livestream.com/tedx/TEDxIIT

“Our core values statement is now official.”

Assertion: Businessschools played acontributing role increating the geniuseswho brought us theeconomic meltdown of2008.Authors ask ”whetherbusiness schools do agood job of alertingstudents to theimperfections andincompleteness of themodels and frameworksthey teach.”

Q: What is valuable?

Activity #1 Use the green file card to write down the total amount of student debt you will be carrying when you graduate from school.

Peer-To-Peer Processes are…• produce use-value through the free cooperation of producerswho have access to distributed capital. Its product is not exchangevalue for a market, but use-value for a community of users.PRODUCE VALUABLE STUFF FOR GIFTING.• are governed by the community of producers themselves, andnot by market allocation or corporate hierarchy.COMMUNITY-ASSIGNED MERIT EARNED.• make use-value freely accessible on a universal basis, throughnew common property regimes. This is its distribution or peerproperty mode: a third mode of ownership, different from privateproperty or public (state) property. VIRAL DISTRIBUTION VIAUNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE NETWORKS.

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.

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

The Gift Economy Prototype @ TEDxIIT 2012 We set up three boards in the lobby – one for offers of stuff, one for offers of services and one for people to note their student debt.

The Gift Economy Prototype @ TEDxIIT 2012

The Gift Economy Prototype @ TEDxIIT 2012 In addition, 11 students reported a total student debt of $321,000 or about $29,000/student.

The Gift Economy Prototype @ TEDxIIT 2012 82 of 100 attendees made offers!

Tom Tresser 312-804-3230tom@tresser.com @tomstee

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