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Debt: The First 5000 Years (Audiobook) David Graeber

Notus & Friends

CHAPTER

The Refusal to Calculate Credits and Debits

The hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations. He said doing so would inevitably create a world where we began comparing power with power and measuring, calculating and reducing each other to slaves or dogs through debt. If nicha's analysis of debt is helpful to us, then it is because it reveals that when we start from the assumption that human thought is essentially a matter of commercial calculation,. once we begin to think about our relationship with the cosmos, we will necessarily onceive of it in terms of debt. I do think nita helps us in another way as well - to understand the concept of redemption.

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