I'm proud to call Rahul a friend, and I admire what he's doing. In order to keep doing what he's doing he just got a job that is consistent with what he's doing. So how does that bear on the topic of the gift-economy?
I on the other hand am doing ten different things all oriented in one way or another to public health issues in both developed and developing countries, and I find it hard to keep expenses paid, much less have adequate reserve for, for instance, project travel, or emergencies. I can say that I am not deeply enough engaged in deep social relationships, such that there is critical social mass to support me and my daughter. So what to do? Just this morning I received a call about a child abuse situation that took 90 minutes that I had planned to use for another activity. I never questioned the importance of the need, nor the giving of myself to help put the caller on a strong legal foundation to help the child, but in the short term it reduced my ability to pay the bills, not enhanced it. So there's a tension there, and I don't frankly know how to resolve it. Perhaps there isn't even a logical way to resolve it, and I'm simply not seeing some nonlinear solution to the dilemma?
On Dec 20, 2008 Dan wrote:
I'm proud to call Rahul a friend, and I admire what he's doing. In order to keep doing what he's doing he just got a job that is consistent with what he's doing. So how does that bear on the topic of the gift-economy?
I on the other hand am doing ten different things all oriented in one way or another to public health issues in both developed and developing countries, and I find it hard to keep expenses paid, much less have adequate reserve for, for instance, project travel, or emergencies. I can say that I am not deeply enough engaged in deep social relationships, such that there is critical social mass to support me and my daughter. So what to do? Just this morning I received a call about a child abuse situation that took 90 minutes that I had planned to use for another activity. I never questioned the importance of the need, nor the giving of myself to help put the caller on a strong legal foundation to help the child, but in the short term it reduced my ability to pay the bills, not enhanced it. So there's a tension there, and I don't frankly know how to resolve it. Perhaps there isn't even a logical way to resolve it, and I'm simply not seeing some nonlinear solution to the dilemma?