{"id":4671,"date":"2011-01-17T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=4671"},"modified":"2016-07-05T18:11:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T22:11:41","slug":"the-opposite-of-consumption-is-not-thrift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2011\/01\/17\/the-opposite-of-consumption-is-not-thrift\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opposite of Consumption Is Not Thrift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/micahe\/2744567495\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4684\" title=\"Generosity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Generosity.jpg\" alt=\"Generosity\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Generosity.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Generosity-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>It&#8217;s generosity.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Cooperation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Want to change the economy?<\/h3>\n<p>Examine your ideas around the act of exchanging. When you are buying or selling, what are you thinking about?<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">What can I get?<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>What can I give?<\/h3>\n<p>What if you approached the exchange of goods and services as a generous act?<\/p>\n<p>What if, as the buyer or as the seller, you felt the value of, and were grateful for, what you were receiving and, as a result, wanted to give freely? How might that change your exchanges?<\/p>\n<p>What if buyers and sellers entered every exchange with a cooperative and giving perspective?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What kind of economy would be possible?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a title=\"photo credit micha.e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/micahe\/2744567495\/\">micha.e<\/a><\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/micahe\/2744567495\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4684\" title=\"Generosity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Generosity.jpg\" alt=\"Generosity\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Generosity.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Generosity-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>It&#8217;s generosity.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Cooperation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Want to change the economy?<\/h3>\n<p>Examine your ideas around the act of exchanging. When you are buying or selling, what are you thinking about?<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">What can I get?<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>What can I give?<\/h3>\n<p>What if you approached the exchange of goods and services as a generous act?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}