What Is Debt Anyway? A Debt Is

If You Imagine That Everything Is An Exchange, Then We're Supposed To Just Transact And Walk Away. If We Haven't Walked Away And We Still Have A Relationship, It's Because There's A Debt.

As It Turns Out, We Don't "all" Have To Pay Our Debts. Only Some Of Us Do.

States Created Markets. Markets Require States. Neither Could Continue Without The Other, At Least, In Anything Like The Forms We Would Recognize Today.

Debt - Like Sin - Implies That One Party In The Transaction Didn't Live Up To Expectations, At Least In The Moment, And Has Done Something Wrong.

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.