Economist Wayne F. Perg, Ph. D writes: “My concept and understanding of the Gift Tensegrity is one of a radical move away from trade-oriented or materialistic sort of exchange.
“In the Gift Tensegrity there is no accounting, there are no prices, there is no barter (no tit for tat), and there is no medium of exchange! For me, it is the road to a post-monetary, post-barter economy.
“Barter and monetary economies both tie together giving and receiving. One cannot be done in the absence of the other. It is this “tying together” that is the ultimate source of “dead resources” and unemployment.
“The Gift Tensegrity frees giving from receiving and receiving from giving and will, as it is implemented, bring all resources to life and eliminate unemployment.
“The Gift Tensegrity does this by creating transparency, i.e., by creating good information on the SEPARATE giving and receiving actions of all members of the Tensegrity. Because there is no trading, only gifts given with no requirement of payment, there are no market prices and no accounting of trades. What there is is an open exchange of information on needs and resources available to fill those needs and ongoing individual negotiations around actions that will meet those needs.
“I see the Gift Tensegrity bringing the exchange relationships of a living organism to human society. As Elizabet Sahtouris has pointed out, the heart does not hold an auction for the supply of oxygenated blood and it does not withhold blood from those organs who are currently unable to pay.”