Sublime

incomplete. At the same time, this book is also something else: a quest to discover the right questions. If ‘what is the origin of inequality?’ is not the biggest question we should be asking about history, what then should it be?

the three primordial freedoms,

eventually cash in their chips.

some Marxists even became convinced that new forms of what they called “immaterial labor”—founded in marketing, entertainment, and the digital economy but spilling outside as well into our increasingly brand-saturated, iPhone-happy daily lives—had become the new locus of value creation—leading to prophecies of the eventual rebellion of the digital

This process is what made it possible for the whole arrangement to be imagined, simultaneously, as a family and as a machine,

as origens verdadeiras do dinheiro devem ser buscadas no crime e na recompensa, na guerra e na escravidão, na honra, na dívida e na redenção.

We have created societies where much of the population, trapped in useless employment, have come to resent and despise equally those who do the most useful work in society, and those who do no paid work at all.

Triste, porque o prematuro desaparecimento de David em setembro de 2020 deixou um enorme vazio. “Antropólogo anarquista”, David era sobretudo um daqueles pesquisadores em ciências sociais que transcendem as disciplinas e os públicos.

(say, a system in which wealth cannot be freely transformed into power, or where some people are not told their needs are unimportant, or that their lives have no intrinsic worth),