In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

People don't have an ongoing relation unless it's a form of debt because everything is an exchange, so ongoing relationships are incomplete exchanges, and therefore one party is probably to blame - more likely than not, both are. Sociality itself seems to become like a matter of sin, and inherently wrong.

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.

The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.

In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.