[A] great embarrassing fact... haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. (David Graeber)

[A] great embarrassing fact... haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

David Graeber

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