“Gifts Make the Tribe”
That’s a subtitle from the chapter, “The Powerful Culture of Gifts,” in Seth Godin’s Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, the book I’m currently reading.
And by gift, he means art as he defines it:
Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient.
An artist is an individual who creates art. The more people you change, the more you change them, the more effective your art is.
In the chapter mentioned, he explains the benefit of usury laws (stay with me; there’s a point):
If I give you some money to buy seeds, your farm flourishes, and now we both have money to give to someone else to invest. The faster the money circulates, the better the tribe does.
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