
Grace Blakeley, Owen Jones, Gillian Tett and Yanis Varoufakis: David Graeber’s ‘Debt’
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Do You Have Any Hope That the Mountain of Debt Is Going to Spark a Crisis?
We are now at record levels by a factor of several times, compared toat we had pre two thousand and eight. Do you have any hope that the sheer magnitude of debt that the world's now drowning in is going to spark enough of a crisis? Meyanes: The more debt there is, the more power the authorities have over the government in italy, over the goverment in greece. What they will do is not the jubilee, unless we force them, unless we have a social movement,. Unless we elect governments that demand it, and they are prepared to act upon their demands.
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