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Think of the ease in which one can acquire food and clothing today. Consider the ubiquitous availability of machines that save us hours of boring labour. For the average person in the global core, it is obvious: the material standard of living has increased exponentially since the industrial-capitalist revolution. Although we may celebrate these achievements it is also clear that such rampant capitalist development has created many horrific ‘negative externalities’.
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In his book Debt, the First 5000 Years, (2011), David Graeber offers an alternative explanation of the generally accepted history of how goods were produced and distributed. Also see Michael Hudson’s: …and Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year (2018).
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Davis, D.F. (2022). The Pathology of Normalcy and Consensual Validation: Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism with Erich Fromm. In: Harris, N., Acaroğlu, O. (eds) Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism. Political Philosophy and Public Purpose. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82669-7_8
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