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If you watch a widely-watched TV show live, like the Super Bowl or M*A*S*H finale, are you building social capital?
If you go on a date with someone, are you building social capital?
If you watch a series on Netflix alone but it’s a popular series other people like too, are you building social capital?
If you go in your closet and close the door and pray for another person by name, are you building social capital?
If you carpool to work, are you building social capital?
If you and some friends write on a piece of paper that you are a club called the Best Friends Club and you register it as a nonprofit but do no other activities, are you building more social capital than if you hadn’t formalized it?
If you ride a bus chartered by your employer to work with coworkers, are you building social capital?
If you and a group of people you met alone gather in person over a few months to work on a shared interest project together, are you building social capital?
If you ride a public bus to work, are you building social capital?
If you and a group of people you met alone gather in person over a few months to work on a shared interest project together, *and that project is plotting the murder of a mutual enemy*, are you building social capital?
If you follow someone on twitter and frequently reply to their tweets and vote in polls they post, are you building social capital?
In general, to the extent social capital is a real thing, who is it that actually has social capital? Is it mostly a thing a lone individual can “have,” or does it mostly exist simply as a feature of human networks?
If you are a member of a drug cartel, are you building social capital?
True or false: “In general, social capital has to refer to relationships or activities that are morally good or laudable, I.e. which we judge to be pro-social?”
If you are a government official and a family member asks you for a favor directly related to your work responsibilities which you know is not technically illegal but might get you reprimanded, and you do it, are you building social capital?
If you make a beautiful work of art and while making it contemplate the joy others would get from it, but then you hide it where nobody ever sees it, are you building social capital?
True or false: “Higher sexual frequency, regardless of who it is with, provided that it is voluntary and not purchased, means more social capital accumulation.”
Technical one for economics people. True or False: “The rate of depreciation on social capital is, in general, HIGHER than the rate of depreciation on property, plant, and equipment.”
If you join a guild in World of Warcraft, are you building social capital?
If you record a good video of yourself explaining how to cook a treasured family recipe which people always ask you to bring to parties, and you put it on YouTube, are you building social capital?
If you go to the same coffee shop every morning, are you building more social capital than if you rotate been 7 coffee shops a week?
If you and some friends are playing basketball against a group you don’t know, and at the end of the game a fight starts and you successfully beat up the other team and then go celebrate with drinks, have you built social capital?
If you find a packet of letters written by a great-grandparent you only met as a child but never knew, and reading it depends your sense of connection to them, have you built social capital?
If you do a normal workday at a normal office job for which you receive a typical wage, have you built social capital?
If you hold the door for the person behind you when entering a building, have you built social capital?
If you buy something from an Etsy shop, have you built social capital?
If you talk to your hair dresser while getting a haircut, are you building social capital?
Would you say that “social capital” and “social currency” are basically synonyms?
True or false: “If I have social capital, it means somebody else has social debt: somebody owes me something.”
If I babysit someone else’s kid for free, and then the next week I ask them to babysit my kid and they decline, does that mean I did not acquire social capital by babysitting their kid?
True or False: “Basically, social capital is a word we use to describe informal and formal reciprocity within relationships.”
True or False: “A person who donates a larger share of their time and money to social organizations which do not provide them any services is building more social capital than a person who donates less time/money.”
If I write in my will that a local charitable organization will receive a large bequest, am I building social capital?
If a person in my community has been poisoning others and killing them, and I find out who it is, and I push them off a cliff, am I building social capital?
If I vote in an election, am I building social capital?
