Debt: The First 5,000 Years — Deep Dive (How Money Became a Tool of Power)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception.In this Deep Dive, we explore Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber — a radical rethinking of money, morality, and power that overturns some of the most basic assumptions in modern economics.Contrary to the familiar story that money evolved from barter, Graeber demonstrates that credit and debt systems came first, long before coins, markets, or capitalism. Debt, he argues, is not merely an economic arrangement but a moral framework — one that has repeatedly been used to justify hierarchy, coercion, and violence throughout history.This episode…
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