၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇြန္လ (၂၈) ရက္ေန႔၊ ရန္ကုန္ျမဳိ ႔ UMFCCI မွာ Hub Myanmar Co., Ltd မွၾကီးမွဴးက်င္းပခဲ့တဲ့ “Better Future Better Myanmar 2015” စီးပြားေရးဆိုင္ရာ အခမဲ့ေဟာေျပာပြဲအစီအစဥ္မ်ား၏ သတၱမေျမာက္ေဟာေျပာပြဲမွာ ပါေမာကၡေဒါက္တာေအာင္ထြန္းသက္ေဟာေျပာခဲ့ေသာ "Gift Economy" ၏ PowerPoint Slide

1. 7th event of Better Future Better Myanmar 2015 Free Seminar Series
“GIFT ECONOMY”
28th June, 2015 (Sunday), 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
UMFCCI, Yangon

2. COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY
Prof.Dr.Aung
Tun Thet

3. INTRODUCTION

5. GIVING
Transcends and includes money
Not primary

6. GIFTS
Essential
Value unconditional
Care
Support
Not exchange

7. GIFTS
Taught to give
Because it is good
Not to get anything in return

8. GIFTS
Give our hearts
Not only money
Our talents, skills, leadership capacities, and
love

9. GIFTS
Gratitude
Generosity
Infectious
Selflessness
Magnanimity

10. WORLD GIVING INDEX (WGI)

11. MYANMAR
High incidence of donating money
Rose to 91% from 85%
Number of people who give money rather than
actual dollar amount

12. DEFINITIONS

13. GIFT ECONOMY
Relationships
Not transactions for profit or personal material
gain
Contrast to barter or commercial economies

14. GIFT ECONOMY
Altruism
Spreading wealth

15. GIFT ECONOMY
More ancient than money economy
Money - concentrated and abstract form of gift
Connect with each other - transcends fee-for-
service
More powerful than anything money can buy

16. GIFT ECONOMY
“Sacred economics”
“Pay-what-you-can”
“Strategy of generosity”
Catching on

17. GIFT ECONOMY
Collaborative
Creative
Immersive
Participatory

18. GIFT ECONOMY
Your good fortune is my good fortune
More for you is more for me!

19. GIVING VERSUS GREED
ECONOMY

22. Surplus
Shelter
Survival (Food,
Clothing)
GREED
Capitalism = Surplus TAKEN
GIFT
Gift Economy = Surplus GIVEN

23. BUILD COMMUNITY
Economy of
Gifts

24. SENSE OF COMMUNITY
Missing
Why?
Impossible in highly monetized society

25. COMMUNITY
Woven from gifts
Poor people have stronger communities than
rich people
Rich people
Financially independent
Don't depend on anyone for anything
Pay someone to do it

26. COMMUNITY
Former times
People depended for necessities and pleasures
on people they knew personally
If you alienated local merchant or doctor, no
replacement
Quality of life much higher

27. COMMUNITY
Not an add-on to life
Way of life

28. TODAY
We don't need anyone
Replaceable
So am I!

29. MARKET SYSTEM
Built-in scarcity
Competition – “More for me is less for you”

30. MONETIZED SOCIETY
Superficiality of most social gatherings
Unconscious knowledge "I don't need you"
Do not draw on gifts of people present

31. RECLAIM GIFT CULTURE
Build true community
Shift of human consciousness
Reunion with nature, earth, each other

32. INTIMACY
Comes from co-creation
Not co-consumption
Different from liking or disliking someone

33. FORGE COMMUNITY
More than getting people together
Not just talking
Do something
Create something

34. MONETIZATION OF LIFE
Reached peak
Beginning long and permanent receding
Desire and necessity

35. RECLAIM GIFT CULTURE
We are not independent or "financially secure"
Just as dependent as before

36. CONCRETE EXAMPLES

37. “We don't charge for
anything, nor do we
advertise anything.
The project is sustained by
anonymous friends who
donate what they can,
not as a payment for what
they have received,
but as a pay-it-forward act
for someone they don't
know ...
someone like you."

38. IMAGINE
Walking into corner grocery
Filling basket with what you need
Leaving behind what you can financially
Walking away with no formal exchange
Economic relationship works better than formal
market economy
Impossible?

39. KARMA KITCHEN
No prices on menu
Check reads $0.00
Person who was there before you pays for your
meal
When you leave, you pay for the next person

40. KARMA KITCHEN
"You get what you pay for.
And if you never try paying for it,
you might even get more."

41. PANERA BREAD
Three gift-economy “Panera Cares Cafes” in St.
Louis, Detroit, and Portland, USA
“Trust people - they’ll surprise you.”

42. HELPOTHERS.ORG
Dedicated to small acts of kindness
Paying for stranger's meals at restaurants
“Smile Cards" - ideas for nice things to do

43. GIFT CIRCLES

44. GIFT ECONOMY
Wealth circulates
Gravitate toward greatest need
People know gifts come back to them
In new form
“Circle of the gift"

45. GIFT CIRCLES
Dynamics of gift systems
Ramifications for economy, psychology, and
civilization

46. GIFT CIRCLE
Less we use money
Less time we need to earn it
More time to contribute to
gift economy
Virtuous circle

47. GIFT CIRCLE
10-20 participants
Everyone sits in circle
Takes turns saying one or
two needs they have

48. GIFT CIRCLE
“Ride to airport next week"
“Someone to help remove fence"
“Ladder to clean gutter"
“Bike"
“Office furniture for community center"

49. GIFT CIRCLE
As each person shares
Others break in to offer to meet need
Or suggestions of how to meet it

50. GIFT CIRCLE
Go around circle again
Each person stating something he or she would
like to give
"Graphic design skills"
“Use of my power tools"
“Contacts in local government to get things
done"
Anything: time, skills, material things; gift of

51. GIFT CIRCLE
As each person shares
Anyone can speak up and say, "I'd like that" or
"I know someone who could use one of those"

52. GIFT CIRCLE
Someone write everything down
Name and phone number of someone who
wants to give or receive something to/from you
Send notes out next day to everyone via email,
or on web page, blog, etc.
Essential to follow up

53. GIFT CIRCLE
Do third round
People express gratitude for things received
since last meeting
Extremely important

54. GIFT CIRCLE
Witnessing of others' generosity inspires
generosity in those who witness it
Confirms giving to each other
Gifts recognized, recognized, appreciated, and
reciprocated

55. GIFT CIRCLE
Simple
1. Needs
2. Gifts
3. Gratitude
Effects profound

56. CONCLUSION

57. GIFT ECONOMY
Reduce dependence on traditional market
Reduce production of waste – sharing without
loss of quality of life

58. GIFT ECONOMY
New forms emerging on Internet
Reclaiming human relationships from market

59. GIFT ECONOMY
Age of humanity
From mother-child relationship to earth
To co-creative partnership - giving and
receiving find balance

60. TRANSITION TO GIFTS
Things created for love and beauty
Connect more deeply to people
Interdependent not independent

61. GIFT ECONOMY
New kind of civilization
New relationship to earth
New more connected human identity

62. GIFT ECONOMY
Common wealth - preserve or reclaim
Richness in soil, water, cultures planet
Another kind of common wealth – reservoir of
gratitude

63. GIFT ECONOMY
New kind of civilization
Need each others' gifts
Need each others' generosity
We need each other!

65. Thank you!
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