![]() It's not just gangsters who utilise the moral power of debt. We can't help but believe Don Corleone when he tells us we owe him one. They do so in the knowledge that debt is a powerful tool for taking even pure extortion and making it seem like it's the debtor who is in the wrong. Gangsters like Don Corleone frame what they do in terms of debt. We resent the "deadbeats" who fail to pay us back and yet many of us believe that people who get us into debt - money lenders - are immoral if not downright evil. In this episode, he examines the moral power that debt holds over us.ĭavid argues that whenever we think about debt we end up in a deep moral confusion. ![]() Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5000 years. ![]()
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