"In America, for instance, pretty much everybody is in debt. The great social evil in antiquity, the thing that Sharia law and medieval canon law were trying to ensure never happened again, was the scenario in which a family gets so deep in debt that they are forced to sell themselves, or sell their children, into slavery. What do you have here today?..."

 بدهی, برده داری و ایده ما در باره/ از آزادی( قسمت دوم), توسط دیوید گرایبر

ZCommunications | Debt, Slavery and our Idea of Freedom (Part 2) by David Graeber | ZNet Article

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David Graeber is a professor of anthropology at Goldsmith’s, London, and a left-wing political activist. His most recent book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, has just been published in the UK. It looks at the history and evolution of debt as both a moral and an economic concept, drawing on anthropolog...