By practicing gentle recrocity we mean that hroughout the community there was a strong and unquestioned notion that social equals enjoyed a roughly balanced exchange which, Pryor and Graburn suggest, in fact made them feel little need to keep an exact mental account of who gave what to whom
People don't want to be suckers. Elinor Ostrom
# See also Decouple Giving & Taking, Reciprocity, equivalence