ZenMatt talks about Agalmics and in doing so gives me some more tools in my 10 year campaign to sort Birmingham out.
Levin points out that the idea of a gift culture is not new, or even particularly radical. It is just humans learning to co-operate for everyone’s advantage, a concept we would conventionally refer to as civilisation.
Here’s the Robert Levin article he’s talking about. It’s from 1999 but a fair bit of the thinking from back then is still valid (cf. Cluetrain)