If we insist on defining all human interactions as matters of people giving one thing for another, then any ongoing human relations can only take the form of debts. (David Graeber)

If we insist on defining all human interactions as matters of people giving one thing for another, then any ongoing human relations can only take the form of debts.

David Graeber

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