Fox takes forever to load through my ISP and connection, because of all its bells, whistles, and other assorted wastes of code, so I'm not going to go to the link. But essentially what he says would only be true if you assumed all the gifts were immediately discarded by their recipients, adn had ho residual economic value to them. He would have a much sounder argument (But still a 'Totally not getting it' one) if he just addressed special holiday meals and parties. Many gifts I've received over the years are still around and useful, from my first .22 (Being used by my #3 son to hunt squirrels this year) to various tools (Power and otherwise), to books I never would have found or been able to justify buying for myself.
