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Debt: The First 5000 Years (Audiobook) David Graeber

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The Difference Between Guns and Loans

In a way, you can see current world economic arrangements as a much larger version of the same thing. In order to be able to run even a egime based on violence, effectively, one needs to establish some kind of set of rules. There's an old vaudeville gag that makes the same point even more elegantly: "A man with te gun jumps out of an alley and says, stick hem up"

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