Money is a government-issued IOU, a liability, and a token for paying taxes; individuals hold it temporarily, not as true private property....
Bank deposits and cash circulate as government debt; the state controls, creates, and cancels money, proving it is not owned by individuals....
Government surpluses shift debt onto citizens; Graeber reveals money as obligation, exposing austerity as power and silence as ritualized control....
The Alchemy of Debt: Paul Grignon’s Money as Debt III Pulls Back the Curtain on the World’s Favorite Illusion “Money is the only story everyone believes—until it stops working.”— from Paul Grignon’s M...
It is absolutely amazing to me how so many people truly understand so little about how their lives are actually affected, and actually work. Listen to me: If you’re a teen, or a young adult, thi...
In early 1987 my Mother bought a house with the intention of paying it off over the next 20 years and creating some small form of financial security to leave after she was gone. She was a single mothe...
