One element, however, tends to go flagrantly missing in even the most vivid conspiracy theories about the banking system, let alone in official accou… - David Graeber

Thus money is almost always something hovering between a commodity and a debt-token. This is probably why coins—pieces of silver or gold that are already valuable commodities in themselves, but that, being stamped with the emblem of local authority, became even more valuable—still sit in our heads as the quintessential form of money. They most perfectly straddle the divide that defines what money is in the first place. What's more, the relation between the two was a matter of constant political conversation. In other words, the battle between state and market, between governments and merchants is not inherent to the human condition.

The criminalization of debt was the criminalization of the very basis of human society.

Slavery is the ultimate form of being ripped from one's context, and thus from all the social relationships that make one a human being.