Spirit Tech Release #2# - "The Gift" The Gift is a spiritual technology that allows anyone to outcompete others in the capitalist game while also spreading a technique that has powerful second-order effects, including solving inequality and bringing about a soft transition to the new age where machines will make almost everything of strictly economic value. Most people who market to you want to get something from you. While this can be effective, it has created a culture where everyone has their defenses up. When trying to get someone to buy something you have made, you will receive a "not interested" at best, or a "what's the catch?" Or, more likely, you will simply be ignored. A more effective approach is to give something which has no catch, as an expression of appreciation or as a desire to do something good for someone else with no reciprocation. For example: you may be a jewelry designer or a painter, and you might reach out to an artist you admire and offer to make something for them, or simply give them something you have already made. It is so rare to receive a gift from someone who genuinely appreciates you and your work that it immediately cuts through their defenses. There is simply nothing to defend yourself against. The recipient is receiving something that has not just economic value, but sentimental and personal value, an artifact of pure gratitude. Attention, trust, and goodwill are the scarcest resources in the capitalist game, and the gift is imbued with all three. No pitch or advertisement or marketing gimmick can compete with this. It is the best way to build relationships and get someone to care, regardless of your intentions. A gift is something that is given without the expectation of receiving anything in return. The Gift works best when you are sincere and give it with no demand on the recipient, although gifts of all kinds will have some impact. Many gift givers will append a reminder to the recipient that if they value the gift they may reciprocate in some way, but this actually raises the defenses of the receiver again and nullifies the effect of The Gift. The gift only works if it is sincere. People are highly perceptive and especially trained to defend themselves against marketing, so if you give in order to receive, people can feel it. Give to the people you genuinely admire, make the thing you genuinely want them to have, and let go. What returns to you may be commissions, collaborations, friendships, reputation, but these only return precisely because you did not demand it. The gift is the only strategy that requires you to abandon strategy. It is much more effective to simply give the gift out of gratitude. Anyone who holds The Light and trusts in its effects can combine these to get what they want more actively, as the giver is not just receiving the future but is actively creating it. Gift giving creates a world of generosity, which enables the abundance in the world to be more readily shared with everyone. It is a way out of a world where there is not enough for everyone, and it provides those with a lot of resources a clear path to personal fulfillment and other forms of capital which are not easily purchased with money. We have transitioned to an attention economy, where having a lot of attention on you can be turned into capital far more easily than spending lots of money can bring attention. Mr. Beast, for example, can leverage his fame to make $100m much more easily than a large corporation can spend $100m to get Mr. Beast fame. In the capitalist game, gift giving is the most effective way to break through the noise in the attention economy and build attention. In a post-capitalist world, building a strong network of relationships will undoubtedly be the most valuable thing, and relationship building requires putting time, attention and effort into other people. There is nothing wrong with capitalism inherently. However, it is focused entirely on economic value, and in a world where machines will undoubtedly consume all money-making activities eventually, what will be left are all other forms of value. If you want to win at anything you're doing, think about how you can give gifts to the people who you most value, resonate with and can find alignment from. These are the people who can usually help you the most. Eventually, you won't have to win. Giving gifts will be the only thing left, since the capitalist incentive for any human to do anything for another human will be essentially nonexistent. By giving gifts now you are both increasing the resources at your disposal for the transition and preparing yourself mentally to have purpose after the transition. Many people are not sure what will happen in the future if just a handful of people control all the economic wealth. The problem with this sort of wealth creation is a distribution problem. While governments may try to redistribute the wealth it is likely, as we have seen often in history, to create deep division and discord. A better solution would be to have a culture that freely redistributes as an act of gratitude to others. That's really all it takes for everyone to have enough, and for everything to go well.