![]() ![]() Make sense? No? It didn’t for me at first, either. ![]() Or perhaps, more appropriately, money and debt are two halves of the same bank note. Money and debt are… two sides of the same coin! Sorry, gleeful money metaphor. This is less a blog post about the serious financial world (of which I’ve always suspected was complete bullshit, and know I have indisputable proof that it, in fact, is), and more a blog post that laughs (in a crying sort of way) at the entire ridiculous nature of the economic foundation we’ve built our silly human modern lives upon. dollar was disconnected from the gold standard in the 1970s, “the world entered a new phase of financial history-one no one completely understands.” Well! That’s a… relief? ![]() If the mere words “debt”, “money”, and “interest rates” make your eyes goes hazy with boredom-or make you feel silly for not understanding what any of it means-let me take this moment to reassure you: apparently, no one does. ![]() The history of money and debt (which is apparently the same story?!?) But it’s really made me think of a few things I’ve never contemplated before: I started reading it LAST AUGUST so, suffice it to say, this 400-page book has been a bit of a slog. I finally finished reading the 2011 book Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber. ![]()
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