/lit/ - Literature

Debt: the first 5000 years is very fun for a book about economics.

>>19226741
The upper class, the owner class, the rentier class.
This isn’t a blood feud, this is a matter of elitist scum making mankind do their bidding

>>19226747
I was only meaning the economics there. More reasonable markets of trade. I advocate the non accumulative labor voucher, but it can be even more simplified than that if a place wants.
Again, I’m Graeber (or even Michael Hudson’s Forgive Them Their Debts) covers it quite well.

>>19169460
I know. You’re paying a debt to the laziest people in the world. The idea that educating someone to go out into the world to make the economy hum needs so much cash is ridiculous. Getting out from under their thumb is tricky.

>>19055412

>>19012454
oops forgot the image

Was he reaching or prophetic?

>early economies based on debits rather than bartering
>axial age religions based on social contracts and feelings of indebtedness to God
>stability of empires hinging on debt forgiveness for peasants

Thoughts on the books of David Graeber? Are you a fan? Yay or nay?

>>18116104
Actually, read this and ignore anyone criticizing it, then read what this poster posted.

>>18096139
That's funny. And what if gold said
>This precious metal is based off social constructs of value and nonrepayable cultural debts represented by arbitrary items of that culture

>>18080756
>heh, nothing personal kid

>make it stick
>deep work
>atomic habits
>how to read a book

Develop the hunger for knowledge. Eventually the drive to learn things will outpace the feelings of entropy, depression, and failure. When I finally achieve flow state in something I am set free from the pain and suffering of the life I live. This is why people on this board read. It's escapism. Some for stories, some for knowledge, but in the end it's all learning of the human condition, seeking answers to questions that can't be answered. I hope you find something that brings you solace, OP. I believe in you.

Here you go OP, learn the historical context first.

Every fucking time.

If only there was a book that could explain the problem.

>>17870051
>currency literally made people more free because putting the citizens and slaves indebted to the sovereign was super cool

>>17870084
It’s not a race or geographic thing, anon. It’s systemic

>>17853541
Give your macro economics some macro context

How can a book be so based? How can my mind be blown by every single god damn page? Why does no one talk about this? The evolution of human economies into transactional ones through the historical lens is fascinating as shit and he explains things in such an easy to understand and yet competent way. This book is the biggest red/black pill you could ever take. He makes such a good argument, but there's absolutely nothing we can do about any of it. Slave trade and human relations determining abstract values of objects within an items purview of interlocking human relations and context is making me question everything around me.

We lost him too soon bros.

>>17829158
I am a class reductionist. Race and gender have historical grounds for their types of oppression, but solving those issues does nothing for the grander schema of class consciousness besides having the blacks, women, and cripples all realize they would benefit under a different system. Their oppression is a biproduct of capital using propaganda and economic power to segregate the working class.

To make this /lit/ related, I've been reading the first 5000 years of debt, and it's fuckin' blowin' my mind dude. I highly rec it.

Is this a great book or am I just too uninformed in anthropology / economics? Post a better one if you think it sucks.

>>17358047
I’m actually listening to Jimmy Dore. All these sore assholes are just anonymous