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The quotations of
American anthropologist and anarchist
1961–2020
6 quotes, most often on Economics, Work and Money.
What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.
In fact, our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards. We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around.
David Graeber1961–2020David Graeber1961–2020David Graeber1961–2020
