Finance caused the fall of Rome
A politics of protecting contracts and property is a civilizational suicide pact.
9 min readJul 8, 2022
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It’s hard to overstate the impact that David Graeber’s 2012 blockbuster Debt: The First Five Thousand Years had on society; it’s a truly magesterial history of the way that debt — and debt forgiveness — played in the establishment of advanced civilization and its downfall:
