 We don't really have a gift economy right now in developed societies but we can take steps toward the gift economy and it starts with embracing the principle of gift which basically recognizes that ultimately everything is a gift. Our lives are a gift. Our breath is a gift. We didn't earn it. We didn't earn the sun. We didn't earn the water. We didn't earn nature. We didn't earn the soil. So ultimately, but even our very lives, we didn't earn our mothers taking care of us when we were helpless, utterly helpless babies. So that recognition of gift as the basic operating principle of the universe which doesn't say, it's not to say that we don't work hard giving and receiving ultimately come into a balance. But to recognize that as a basic principle then motivates a desire to live by that and to take steps toward a world that recognizes gift as fundamental and that is built on gratitude and generosity and sharing.