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Eigen Schuld documentary on VPRO. When banks get too much debt, they are bailed out; when governments and citizens get into debt, they really go bankrupt. What does that say about debt as a philosophical category? What does IOU have to do with violence? Why does bankruptcy take so many different forms? What does debt have to do with inequality? Is guilt something you “do” to someone? And how will we deal with debt in the future? Topical questions for a time when debt dominates European news. David Graeber, anthropologist and anarchist, wrote the sensational book “Debt: the first 5,000 Years” about it. His central thesis: the more virtual the debt, the easier cancellation becomes.

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