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Debt: The First 5000 Years (Audiobook) David Graeber

Notus & Friends

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The Importance of Honesty

communistic relations can easily start slipping into relations of hierarchical inequality. Sometimes different people's abilities and needs are grossly disproportionate, genuinely agaletaria. Societies tend to develop elaborate safeguards around the dangers of any one rising too far above themselves. A member who draws attention to his own accomplishments will find himself the object of mockery. The only polite thing to do if one has accomplished something significant is to make fun of oneself.

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