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Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein - A Short Film

I wish they would do one of those documentaries on the effects of this, like a National Geographic “Aftermath: Gift Ecnomony” series.

Day 1: Wage premiums disappear and every sanitation and sewage worker, and anybody else who doesn’t like what their work, just quits. You know since we’re all working for gifts now, why overexert yourself. Everyone becomes a poet/playwright/pro athlete.

Day 6: All of your fresh produce has gone bad, and nobody just wants to pick strawberries anymore,  so you’ve resorted to eating the food from your “homeless garden.”

Day 8: Your new found love for the outdoors comes in very handy because your house doesn’t have power anymore anyway.

Day 13: People realize that they should gift more goods to others to get them to do undesirable work. Most people begin taking heavy losses on “P2P investing” as a result.

Day 17: The extra gifts are cool and all, but workers wonder what they’re going to do with more goods and services (including half a dozen vouchers for disc golf lessons) than they can reasonable enjoy.

Day 22: A medium of exchange is created as a store of value to be used instead of gift exchange.

Day 26: This new medium of exchange comes in really handy when people realize they invest in other ventures, but in order to insulate themselves from potential losses they charge for the use of capital. Everyone is stoked because P2P capital has dried up because people are tired of losing their shirts (literally?) on these deals.

Day 30: Oh hey, we’re in a market economy again!

Year 150: Somebody forgets all the advantages of a market economy and thinks the middle ages had a better economic model.

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