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Aysha, Birbal & Chris self-report their feelings about the transactions. How they feel is more important than what goes on. For example:

• 1. A & B spend the same amount of time playing badminton, but B feels he enjoyed it more.
• 2. B has negligible inconvenience from lending C a video, so he scores it as zero. C enjoyed it, so he scores it as a positive. So this transaction is just a straight 'Win'.
• 3. C looks after A's daughter, so in normal economics, he is judged as a 'loser' (and compensated with money for being so).
  However, since he enjoys doing this, he scores it as a positive. Why not?

Human interaction is not a zero-sum game, and to rid ourselves of a short-sighted,
money-obsessed view of what constitutes 'profitable' activity. We need an alternative system of economics that reflects this!

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