Reciprocity

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A Framework for Understanding Commons & Commoning

Decouple Giving & Taking means, that people receive without being forced to return and give without expecting to receive back.

At some point in the history of a commons perhaps not at the beginning, sanctions are important to a robust peer governance process. More specifically: "graduated Sanctions". They refer to a set of measures determined by the commoners involved, which express a "quasi-voluntary compliance" (Levi 1988) to the commonly established rules. And here is why they are important:

When we refer to mutualization, to mutual organizations, or use the verb "mutualize", we refer to an idea, a concept, and practices that are based on the principle of mutuality.

David West (html ) identified the following patterns, motivated by the insight, that our technology and the systems we intend to build with it, are an existential threat to humanity. But, simultaneously they present a potential to realize utiopan visions for human experience and life.

By practicing gentle recrocity we mean that hroughout the community there was a strong and unquestioned notion that social equals enjoyed a roughly balanced exchange which, Pryor and Graburn suggest, in fact made them feel little need to keep an exact mental account of who gave what to whom

The Sugluk Inuit (Canada) practice the pattern to Decouple Giving & Taking. Cultural anthropologist Thomas Widlok explains in the chapter "The myth of reciprocity of "The Anthropology of the Economy of Sharing", 2017):