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Debt: The First 5000 Years (Audiobook) David Graeber

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Nicha's Premise Is Insane

It all makes perfect sense if you start from nitya's initial premise. There is also every reason to believe that nitya knew the premise was insane, in fact, that this was the entire point. What nita is doing here is starting out from the standard common sense assumptions about the nature of human beings and driving them to a place where they can only shock a bourgeois audience. The best response to any one who wants to take seriously nicha's fantasies about savage hunters chopping off pieces of each othr's bodies for failure to remit are the words of an actual hunter gatherer made famous in Peter freuken's book of the esqimaux.

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