On Gifts
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Quote“Community is woven from gifts. Unlike today's market system, whose built-in scarcity compels competition in which more for me is less for you, in a gift economy the opposite holds. Because people in gift culture pass on their surplus rather than accumulating it, your good fortune is my good fortune: more for you is more for me. Wealth circulates, gravitating toward the greatest need. In a gift community, people know that their gifts will eventually come back to them, albeit often in a new form. Such a community might be called a "circle of the gift."
https://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/to-build-community-an-economy-of-gifts/
A beautiful quote on a 'gift culture,' a culture that underpins the entire foundation of AdonisMale and what goes back to the original mission of our community: to share beautiful photos of men.
The most important part about gift culture is that the reward comes not from taking or consuming, but on the very act of gifting itself. In a community, the more that you put in, the more that you receive.
What gifts have you received from the community, and what gifts have you shared?
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