Debt - Like Sin - Implies That

I Would Like, Then, To End By Putting In A Good Word For The Non-industrious Poor. At Least They Aren’t Hurting Anyone. Insofar As The Time They Are Taking Time Off From Work Is Being Spent With Friends And Family, Enjoying And Caring For Those They Love, They’re Probably Improving The World More Than We Acknowledge.

Free Market Ideology - Does Anyone Know Where It First Comes From? It Comes From Medieval Islam, And Specifically, Shari'a. Because Shari'a Provided This Commercial Law That Is Independent From The State.

Consensus Isn't Just About Agreement. It's About Changing Things Around: You Get A Proposal, You Work Something Out, People Foresee Problems, You Do Creative Synthesis. At The End Of It, You Come Up With Something That Everyone Thinks Is Okay. Most People Like It, And Nobody Hates It.

All Societies Are Based On A Sort Of Minimum Level Of Communism. Otherwise, You Couldn't Have Any Social Relations At All.

If History Shows Anything, It Is That There's No Better Way To Justify Relations Founded On Violence, To Make Such Relations Seem Moral, Than By Reframing Them In The Language Of Debt—above All, Because It Immediately Makes It Seem That It's The Victim Who's Doing Something Wrong.