ReadTheDebtBook
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"fuck it I know that guy he's alright" is a little glib so let me be clear why this is some cool anthropology shit:
if you don't say "fuck it" and spot him those potatoes, he may be dead the next time you need to trade. a community that trades like this can survive better
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Glad you asked! :D
READ DEBT BY DAVID GRAEBER!
not going to waste your time here, chapter 2 has everything you are looking for! the bits about the two specific indigenous groups in Brazil & Australia was great.
as was the explanation of how people still used currency by number and debts without relying on actual coinage after the Black Death laid waste to Europe. Totally digestable to libs who like stuff like Freakanomics or [whispering] the Bible so you can just smash that mfing share button
Folks used to practice minor forms of debt delay/forgiveness all the time (and still do, but many people now consider it immoral) mainly with "unequal" trading but also deliberately being like, ah fuck it, I know that guy, he's alright
https://libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf Here's the first search result on ddg for debt graeber pdf yuore' welcomed :smooch:
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the virgin "invisible hand" vs the chad MUTUALISTIC SURVIVAL
EDIT: btw those indigenous groups I mentioned provide great examples of how unfriendly communities traded. this isn't just about pastoral metaphors. the trades between unfriendly groups were a substitute for the hostilities which would result in one group taking the land & resources from the other. instead they work out their needs without a fight that results in dead monke. monke help monke :')