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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Barter and Craigslist
This is the project space for Brandon Nguyen, Jon Heston, Alice San, Connie Hsu, James Grant, and Dominic Adam Cabacungan. You may post material for discussion, sharing, and comments as "comments" to this post, as well as images, etc.
i sent out the outline with 6 topics to address, (one per person) that are completely flexible. pick your top 3 and we'll figure out who does what on tuesday. each person will present their topic# on thursday. Also, i don't have dominic's email so if you can forward the email to him or send me his email that would be awesome.
I found a website for this organization based in LA that allowes members to barter services with other members. Sounds pretty interesting a potentially good interview source. http://www.geocities.com/theskillspool/index.html
Of everything which we possess there are two uses: both belong to the thing as such, but not in the same manner, for one is the proper, and the other the improper or secondary use of it. For example, a shoe is used for wear, and is used for exchange; both are uses of the shoe. He who gives a shoe in exchange for money or food to him who wants one, does indeed use the shoe as a shoe, but this is not its proper or primary purpose, for a shoe is not made to be an object of barter. The same may be said of all possessions, for the art of exchange extends to all of them, and it arises at first from what is natural, from the circumstance that some have too little, others too much. Hence we may infer that retail trade is not a natural part of the art of getting wealth; had it been so, men would have ceased to exchange when they had enough.
Ps. I checked the status of my PC notebook, still hasn't been shipped. I been calling customer reps and i am officially depressed from the whole exercise. sad face =(
I found this humorous article from The Onion (fake newspaper) that relates to our project. http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/ive_got_a_lot_of_love_to_barter
Its pretty funny and makes you think about how often we make these sort of non-monetary transactions and whether those are in a sense forms of barter.
The whole site is hilarious and definitely worth checking out. Especially this video: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/poll_bullshit_is_most_important
9 comments:
i like this project topic. i can't wait to hear how you all are going to go about it.
Online bartering sites want to change how consumers shop.
Internet breathes new life into age-old market of bartering
thanks for the articles connie
i sent out the outline with 6 topics to address, (one per person) that are completely flexible. pick your top 3 and we'll figure out who does what on tuesday. each person will present their topic# on thursday. Also, i don't have dominic's email so if you can forward the email to him or send me his email that would be awesome.
thanks everyone
Hey guys,
I found a website for this organization based in LA that allowes members to barter services with other members. Sounds pretty interesting a potentially good interview source.
http://www.geocities.com/theskillspool/index.html
-Jon
From Aristotle:
Of everything which we possess there are two uses: both belong to the thing as such, but not in the same manner, for one is the proper, and the other the improper or secondary use of it. For example, a shoe is used for wear, and is used for exchange; both are uses of the shoe. He who gives a shoe in exchange for money or food to him who wants one, does indeed use the shoe as a shoe, but this is not its proper or primary purpose, for a shoe is not made to be an object of barter. The same may be said of all possessions, for the art of exchange extends to all of them, and it arises at first from what is natural, from the circumstance that some have too little, others too much. Hence we may infer that retail trade is not a natural part of the art of getting wealth; had it been so, men would have ceased to exchange when they had enough.
Ps. I checked the status of my PC notebook, still hasn't been shipped. I been calling customer reps and i am officially depressed from the whole exercise. sad face =(
James G.
Hey guys,
I found this humorous article from The Onion (fake newspaper) that relates to our project.
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/ive_got_a_lot_of_love_to_barter
Its pretty funny and makes you think about how often we make these sort of non-monetary transactions and whether those are in a sense forms of barter.
The whole site is hilarious and definitely worth checking out. Especially this video:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/poll_bullshit_is_most_important
-Jon
Thanks for the links, Jon!
Here's another article from The Onion that's kinda related:
Five-Family Yard Sale Mainly Selling Items To Each Other
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