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We want to post our work for free on the internet - videos, scripts, grant proposals, etc., to facilitate uptake / knowledge transfer, but we need income to pay our expenses.  Should we try to prevent video piracy of our work?  Should we try to prevent others from using our ideas in grant applications and in marketing?  Or can we produce professional theatre projects for $0?  
If the performers focus on priming the conditions for creativity through playful workouts, and then create a production through 100 public improvisations, in a way we get 100 plays for the price of 1.  How do you account for play - how can your accounting records satisfy auditors/donors?  If one member spends 100 hours on something which doesn't ultimately get used - which doesn't yield a return on investment - should he or she be paid?  If we expected a task to take 1 hour and be fun, but takes 20 and is body-and-soul destroying, how should the person be compensated?  Can the sense of play in a team survive these frustrations?  If so, can play be a business model for producing other goods and services?  In other words, can business be experienced as a contact improv dance?

Beyond going through motions, let imagination inspire movement. Discover how the body moves in spontaneous response to emotion - discover the mind in the body.  Try working out by being productive.  

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What's wrong with this picture:  people devoted to serving don't get pensions or benefits (vacation pay, sick leave, dental plans) or expense accounts - they not only don't get paid for their work, they pay to work.
Is the only thing wrong the perspective?
Our vision: everyone sees partners in care everywhere (mailman, bus driver); everyone identifies as a care-partner in all they do.

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What do you get for the person who has everything?  Have you discovered the toys and the tools of production within?  If you think virtual reality is great, wait til you try reality!  Play with it, and make real contact with people, animals, plants, and, if you will, God.
Plus: Dissolve the give-receive dichotomy - get what you really want - co-create!

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Have the promises of technology come true?  Are we now free to be channels of peace, participants in Creation?  Do we escape from freedom?  Do we think there is no other game in town?  Is the incentive economy obsolete - can there be an inspired economy, where we don't need the band aid solutions of rewards and punishments to motivate us, because we are reborn in our original innocence?  (Our inspiration is only frustrated when we feel we must violate our values in order to survive, n'est-ce pas?)  (I just found the research community agrees - instrumental motivation robs people of intrinsic motivation.)

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A documentary of a year-long project with 10 families/homes - some in caregiving situations, some not.  Who can have the greatest quality of life for the least amount of "true cost" - financial expense plus environmental and social impact? Can the competitors collaborate and still enjoy a competition?  
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