Are you saying CHINA was a capitalist society too? How am I supposed that to square with all the narrative that the above comment thread?
Also: am I a bad parent for seeing my child as an individual being who has wants, need, and aspirations that I just want to be a catalyst for, and money is just a bunch of white noise in the background like my fucking tinnitus, even though I live in a capitalist society?
Another example is in ancient China where children would have a “milk debt” they owed their parents.
Graeber wrote a lot about this in “Debt”
Are you saying CHINA was a capitalist society too? How am I supposed that to square with all the narrative that the above comment thread?
Also: am I a bad parent for seeing my child as an individual being who has wants, need, and aspirations that I just want to be a catalyst for, and money is just a bunch of white noise in the background like my fucking tinnitus, even though I live in a capitalist society?
Am I doing capitalism wrong guys?
I’m not and neither is Graeber.
And I imagine this was a more popular idea when most kids died before age 5 and food wasn’t guaranteed.
food isn’t even guaranteed in the United States, a supposed “first world country” let alone anywhere else.