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Re: Isn't it rather obvious (4.00 / 9)
According to Graeber it was always so:

What is Debt? - An Interview with Economic Anthropologist David Graeber « naked capitalism

In Sanskrit, Hebrew, Aramaic, `debt,' `guilt,' and `sin' are actually the same word. Much of the language of the great religious movements - reckoning, redemption, karmic accounting and the like - are drawn from the language of ancient finance


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by A swedish kind of death on Sun Feb 17th, 2013 at 05:46:05 AM EST
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