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Debt: The First 5000 Years (Audiobook) David Graeber

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The Psychology of Equivalences

Mediaeval welsh law codes can contain detailed breakdowns, not only of the value of different ages and conditions. One young, healthy milk cow is equivalent to exactly 36 chickens, for instance. The levying of penalties must have constantly required the calculation of equivalences. It's strange enough to wish to be square with one's parents - it rather implies that one does not wish to think of them as parents any more.

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