“A legitimate enterprise had to have some moral basis, and the only morality the company knew was debt.”

— David Graeber

Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Eleven, "Age of the Great Capitalist Empires", p. 350

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American anthropologist and anarchist 1961

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