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Slavery is the ultimate form of being ripped from one's context, and thus from all the social relationships that make one a human being.

— David Graeber

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It is the secret scandal of capitalism that at no point has it been organized primarily around free labor.

Before we can apply the tools of anthropology to reconstruct the real history of money, we need to understand what's wrong with the conventional account.

Exchange is all about equivalence.

Honor is the same as credit; it's one's ability to keep ones promises, but also, in the case of a wrong, to "get even".

One might even say that it's one of the scandals of capitalism that most capitalist firms, internally, operate communistically.

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