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Debt: The First 5000 Years (Audiobook) David Graeber

Notus & Friends

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The Origins of Morality

Selling and buying are older than the beginnings of any form of social organizations. The urge to trade is the very thing that makes us different from other animals, he says. Unlke smith never occurred to nice that you could have a world where all such transactions immediately cancel out any system of commercial accounting. He believed that it was from this very fact that human morality emerged.

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