normally we are told giving is more noble than receiving, but considering, it seems they may be just about equal in importance.

Since a flow can only persist in time if it is balanced (inflow more or less equal to outflow) if we’d insist on giving only - thinking to do more good that way - without graciously and thankfully receiving as well, we would soon find we have cut off the necessary feedback for the flow.

And what is a gift economy other than a continuous flow of giving and receiving?