Trip 49: Debt
*planted: 28/06/2025last tended: 30/06/2025
Debt.
- People went along with neoliberalism because they could get cheap flat screen TVs and holidays.
- People could afford luxury goods because of the collapse of manufacturing costs and cheap credit.
- Consumption was not funded by wage rises.
- House ownership massively affects your ability to take on debt.
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber.
- Everyday communism. Sociality.
- Very little in everyday life operates like a market.
- Even the internals of corporations don't operate like markets.
1. Elsewhere
1.1. In my garden
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