" #DavidGraeber was the #anthropologist who re-framed economics by showing that its most basic assumptions were myths.
Where conventional economists traced money to barter and exchange, #Graeber traced it to trust and relationships. He argued that the origins of money lay not in #markets but in #morality: in obligations, promises, and the human capacity for cooperation."

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11/14/economic-questions-the-david-graeber-question/comment-page-1/

" #DavidGraeber was the #anthropologist who re-framed economics by showing that its most basic assumptions were myths.
Where conventional economists traced money to barter and exchange, #Graeber traced it to trust and relationships. He argued that the origins of money lay not in #markets but in #morality: in obligations, promises, and the human capacity for cooperation."

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11/14/economic-questions-the-david-graeber-question/comment-page-1/

Woman with stern look staring up into face of man in riot gear.

Under the woman it says, "Morality: Doing what is right regardless of what you are told"

Under the bodyarmored dude it says, "Obedience: Doing what you are told regardless of what is right"

#alttext #alt4you #morality #fascism

"The attempt to steal an election gets balanced against mean tweets about the media.

This isn’t moral reasoning; it’s moral paralysis disguised as fairness."

#Democrats#Republicans #fascism #democracy#BothSides #morality
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"More insidiously, it creates a framework where atrocities and policy preferences become commensurable—as if they exist on the same moral scale and can be weighed against each other. Systematic attacks on democratic institutions get balanced against tax cuts. Corruption gets balanced against deregulation."

#Democrats#Republicans #fascism #democracy#BothSides #morality
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