As with much of Prof. graeber's work it took very dry, polarized and over trodden subjects, back to their human fundamentals.

His thoughts are not so much something to build a society on as to measure a society against. Especially in the light of Austrian fundamentals he reminds us that if the likes of Elon or Thiel interpret free markets to mean anti-human extremes, we reserve the historical right to burn it all down.

Jubilee years, credit and debt as human drama and displays of affection or forgiveness, pre dating scientific ,economoc or state analysis, does what it was his job, force you to think.

His depth of thought left Thiel somewhat at a loss for words in their public discussion/debate. Thiel did not win, Graeber did not win, but you come away with the feeling that if Graeber somehow were to lose and get lost in the narratives of the technocrats, we are all fucked.

A great book about people, and people are what matter.