"The good things are degraded when they move from a gift economy to a money economy"

pious anarcho ...horse feathers
i have great synmpathy for gift economy fantasias

but the last 10 k years of human social development were not just one damn rip off configuration after another

my beloved gosplan's first five year plan
with its physical balance approach and its products exchange
was about as updated
as the inca state system
after that it and its clones and mutates
only survived by the grace of their crypto market transactions

fortunately/regrettably/inevitably
erhaps
its greatest single human product deng xiao ping
put my favorite "off shoot "
the one with chinese characteristics
out of its misery
perhaps the correct way
perhaps not

th whole 70 year exercise was a discovery of
just how profound was our ignorance
of Clio's secrets
"the socially real is socially rational"
but realities rationality
is not all that obvious
since the fucker is always morphing ...eh ???

exchange presents ??

if so then we already do
the question becomes why is it not the main basis of our social exchanges

i'll refer you to the incomplete record we have built
of our last ten thousand years of social development

maybe among all that u may
discover a necessary causal chain
i can only point to it all
and with a leap of conviction
find it suifficient evidence to uphold the conjecture
" even commodity production might be a necessary stage we have yet learned by our trial actions
to sublate "
answer to all that