In “Debt: The First 5000 Years” (2011), he explored the changing definitions of borrowing and who owed what to whom. Graeber explored the changing definitions of borrowing and who owed what to whom. (“This book asks readers whether there might be a better way to organize the world of work,” Alana Semuels wrote in her Times review. “That’s a question worth asking.”)“In technological terms, we are quite capable of this,” Mr. Graeber wrote. “It is a scar across our collective soul.”Dr. Graeber admitted that imposing an objective measure of social value would be challenging, and that a world without, say, teachers, wouldn’t work.

Source: New York Times September 04, 2020 20:11 UTC