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Debt: The First 5000 Years (Audiobook) David Graeber

Notus & Friends

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The Importance of Civility in Relationships

Just about everything interesting happens in between. Even if this means that all such human relations bear with them at least a tiny element of criminality, guilt or shame. For the tiv women whom i mentioned earlier in the chapter, this wasn't much of a problem. By insuring that every one was always slightly in debt to one another, they actually created human society. A delicate web made up of obligations to return three eggs or a bag of ocra ties,. renewed and recreated as any one of them could be cancelled out at any time. Our own habits of civility are not so very different. To do so is often treated as basic morality. We are constantly chiding children

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