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Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is “community.” What happened to community, and why don’t we have it any more? There are many reasons—the layout of suburbia, the disappearance of public space, the automobile and the television, the high mobility of people and jobs—and, if you trace the “whys” a few levels down, they all implicate the money system. 
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JoatU is a transitional application that allows us to smoothly transition into a post-capitalist, heavily (and happily) unemployed world. There may be fewer jobs, but that isn’t to say there isn’t work. We are trading financial capital for social capital (Jeremy Rifkin) and JoatU allows us to begin measuring and rewarding the people who work hardest for our communities. No longer is a good deed just its own reward. You get a reward on top of that! And if you don’t think you ought to receive such a reward? Pass it along to someone else as a gift!
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Scoop.it!
Greed is a symptom of a malady far transcending economics and no aspect of our society will be untouched in the revolution of love that is underway.
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But the reason it spread so fast is because, as I alluded to above, the Gift Economy changes the entire business relationship. Instead of a situation where the client is skeptical and fears getting ripped off because they don’t understand web design and yet are being asked for a 50% deposit up front, causing the client to argue for the lowest possible bid to lower their risk, the Gift Economy places all the risk on me. I built many of my websites this year without any deposit at all, and when I was finished I turned the entire site over to the client 100%. Always, and without any strings attached.
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