David Graeber and Micheal Hudson deal with these issues with a bit more factual historical information. The emergence of debt obligations, did not emerge from land. There are entire cultures that get entangled in webs of debt and obligation that have nothing to do with land.
That doesn’t mean that it eventually gets mixed together, but that’s not the origin of it.
David Graeber and Micheal Hudson deal with these issues with a bit more factual historical information. The emergence of debt obligations, did not emerge from land. There are entire cultures that get entangled in webs of debt and obligation that have nothing to do with land.
That doesn’t mean that it eventually gets mixed together, but that’s not the origin of it.
You are right. I'm a big fan of Graeber, but I wrote the earliest version of this as a parable for my children prompted by the Rousseau quote, before I'd read 'The Dawn Of Everything'. Although my little story is set in the pre-Roman early commons era of England, rather than the Sumerian example given in '5000 years of debt', and my focus was more on hierarchy rather than debt. But it seems there is a need for a more historical article to address the origin of these concepts as well, although as I recall Graeber's research also supports that exclusive ownership of previous common resources is often used to enable and justify hierarchy.
David Graeber and Micheal Hudson deal with these issues with a bit more factual historical information. The emergence of debt obligations, did not emerge from land. There are entire cultures that get entangled in webs of debt and obligation that have nothing to do with land.
That doesn’t mean that it eventually gets mixed together, but that’s not the origin of it.
You are right. I'm a big fan of Graeber, but I wrote the earliest version of this as a parable for my children prompted by the Rousseau quote, before I'd read 'The Dawn Of Everything'. Although my little story is set in the pre-Roman early commons era of England, rather than the Sumerian example given in '5000 years of debt', and my focus was more on hierarchy rather than debt. But it seems there is a need for a more historical article to address the origin of these concepts as well, although as I recall Graeber's research also supports that exclusive ownership of previous common resources is often used to enable and justify hierarchy.
You will find Micheal Hudson of equal interest if you haven't seen much of his material. He studied credit and debt in antiquity.
A marvel to listen to, although his speech is suffering in age.