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  • SaberTail [any]
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    4 years ago

    people don't even realize a good chunk of the Code of Hammurabi was about forgiving debts

    the rosetta stone, too

    http://www.cadtm.org/The-Long-Tradition-of-Debt

    • Ewball_Oust [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Debt Jubilees were such an important economic policy in ancient tmes, it's quite bizarre that people nowadays pretend that paying your student loan/mortgage until the day you die is some kind of law of nature