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Adam Palm's avatar

Now because of our dependence on money and the high cost of living only the wealthy can live those luxurious lives of gentleman farming with their immigrant serfs. ;p

A couple of books I think you'd find very fascinating.

Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins

The Dawn of Everything- A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

Toward a Truly Free Market- A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More by John Medaille

All would add to your reflections here. Kindly Meant!

Gil Gildner's avatar

Some very interesting books, I have read a bit of Graeber.

Although I like the concepts as thought experiments, I cannot say I agree with the conclusions. A lot of intellectuals like to make things more complicated than they really are. At the end of the day, we barter time for money, money for power, and some people do it better and come out on top, and that's ok!