Miscellaneous Explanations of Exchange Styles

First published in ⿻Plurality and Plural Management Protocol.

Miscellaneous Explanations of Exchange Styles

• Structure of World History (2010)Yuuheng Theory (2014)Study of D (2015-2016)~ power and modes of exchange (2022)

• 1:

  • They shared the food they took in a small group of blood relatives.
    • joint deposit, reciprocal gift, community, exchange style A

• 2:

  • The more people, the less successful it will be -> need a "governing" (RULE) mechanism
  • Protect if you obey, punish if you don't follow the rules, state, exchange style B

• 3:

  • Private "contracts" made possible by the power of the state to "punish you if you don't play by the rules".
    • If you break the contract, the state power retaliates against you, which creates a deterrent and protects the contract.
  • Currency, investment, markets, division of labor with faceless people, capitalism, mechanisms broader than the state, modes of exchange C

• Through the exchange style A -> B -> C, recovery at a higher level of exchange style A takes place, which is the X of Gyoto Karatani.

• The punishing power of the transcendent makes private coordination possible.

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