by Ira Nayman In times of hyper-capitalism, where everything is naturally seen as for sale, the idea that anybody does anything without expectation of financial compensation is considered absurd. Where […]
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A book review by Eric Nehrlich After reading Trickster Makes This World, I went back and picked up this earlier book by Lewis Hyde. Again, his mastery of mythology amazes […]
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Barbara J. Pescan Trobriand Islanders of the South Pacific have an elaborate ritual way of passing gifts of necklaces and arm bands made of shells. The shells themselves are nicely […]
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A Book Review by by Margaret Talbot In the 1980s, when newspapers and magazines first started reporting on parents who had rejected school in favor of teaching their children at […]
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By John Cloud and Jodie Morse TIME.com In many ways, in fact, home schooling has become a threat to the very notion of public education. In some school districts, so […]
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Mark Pilgrim wrote a very interesting and in my opinion very brave article about his personal addiction to alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco. He published his article on the internet and […]
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John Bostrom Before Sept 11th, Bush was in huge trouble – on top of not having been really elected and sounding like a puppet, his first months in office prove […]
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Benjamin C. Works I’m not ready for $100 a barrel oil prices, are you? That would be more than a four-fold increase from prices now bouncing around $22 a barrel. […]
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by Ed Phillips It’s free, it’s out here, but you’re going to have to dig for it. You are going to have to give something away in order to receive […]
Continue readingCan Linux billionaires carry the free-software torch?
Salon.com Both Larry Augustin and Eric Steven Raymond are believers in something called “the gift economy”—a way of organizing labor in cyberspace that runs counter to the normal business practices […]
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