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MF Tinga @ferrermateus.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Dívida - Os primeiros 5.000 anos David Graeber (2014)

Capa do livro Dívida - Os Primeiros 5.000 anos, David Graeber, Edição da Melville House. 2014

Chapter One

ON THE EXPERIENCE OF MORAL CONFUSION

debt
• noun 1 a sum of money owed. z the state of owing money. 3 a feeling of gratitude for a favour or service.
—Oxford English Dictionary

If you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, you own the bank.
—American Proverb

Chapter Two

THE MYTH OF BARTER

For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong.
—H. L. Mencken (slightly rephrased)

Chapter Three

PRIMORDIAL DEBTS

In being born every being is born as debt owed to the gods, the saints, the Fathers and to men. If one makes a sac-rifice, it is because of a debt owing to the gods from birth... If one recites a sacred text, it is because of a debt owing to the saints... If one wishes for off-spring, it is because of a debt due to the fathers from birth ... And if one gives hospitality, it is because it is a debt owing to men.
Satapatha Brahmana 1.7.12, 1-6

Let us drive away the evil effects of bad dreams, just as we pay off debts.
—Rig Veda 8.47.17