THE COMMON FUND
There occurs in everyday life a continual giving and taking of goodness, but there would soon be very little to give and take if the exchange were, so to speak, on a basis of cash payment and immediate consumption — if there were no credit open and no condoning of debts. Rules of politeness, when not themselves expressive of goodness, act as a kind of receipt of payment, an acknowledgement that goodness is the only recognizable tender.
— Giovanni Baldelli, Social Anarchism