Gifts Suck
Posted in Caring, Classical Liberalism, Extended Order, Religion, Tribalism, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Aug 20th, 2018
Gifts are the original sin of commerce. My theory is that this is why “the gift economy” is so cherished by critics of anonymous, ephemeral, market exchange. Market exchanges allow us to free ourselves from the power that our families and others exercise over us. The wider the extent of market competition, the less we […]