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David Bollier quotes Lewis Hyde's explanation of how the value increase works in gift economics:
"Lewis Hyde explains how the circulation of gifts generates increases of value: “Capital earns profit and the sale of a commodity turns a profit, but gifts that remain gifts do not *earn* profit, they *give* increase. The distinction lies in what we might call the vector of the increase: in gift exchange, the increase stays in motion and follows the object, while in commodity exchange it stays behind as profit.”
https://metapolis.net/project/commoning-and-changemaking/
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