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 //"The refusal to calculate credits and debits can be found throughout the anthropological literature on egalitarian hunting societies. Rather than seeing himself as human because he could make economic calculations, the hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations.."// (([[https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/6811142-debt-the-first-5-000-years|https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/6811142-debt-the-first-5-000-years]]))
-{{  :iroquois-constiution.jpg?400}}In recent history, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois|Iroquois in North America]] were probably the best example of moneyless, egalitarian communities. In his book //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People's_History_of_American_Empire|A People's History of the United States]]: 1492 – Present// [1980], Howard Zinn writes:
+{{  :iroquois-constiution.jpg?400|iroquois-constiution.jpg}}In recent history, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois|Iroquois in North America]] were probably the best example of moneyless, egalitarian communities. In his book //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People's_History_of_American_Empire|A People's History of the United States]]: 1492 – Present// [1980], Howard Zinn writes:
 //"In the villages of the Iroquois, land was owned in common and worked in common. Hunting was done together, and the catch was divided among the members of the village. Houses were considered common property and were shared by several families. The concept of private ownership of land and homes was foreign to the Iroquois.//
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 //"[W]e can’t know of some of the moneyless cultures that extend back beyond our historical records, or beyond our 5,000 years of monetary history. […] But can we not surmise that they must have been successful enough to get mankind to where we are now? Can we say the same thing about the future of humanity under a monetary paradigm, given our current trajectory?"// (([[https://books.google.ie/books/about/The_Next_Copernican_Revolution.html?id=CXMtvgAACAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y|https://books.google.ie/books/about/The_Next_Copernican_Revolution.html?id=CXMtvgAACAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y]]))
-{{:christopher-columbus-631.jpg?400  }}Perhaps most (in)famously, Christopher Columbus gave many detailed accounts of his encounters with native tribes of the Americas, including the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arawak|Arawaks of the Bahamas]], describing them as:
+{{:christopher-columbus-631.jpg?400  |christopher-columbus-631.jpg}}Perhaps most (in)famously, Christopher Columbus gave many detailed accounts of his encounters with native tribes of the Americas, including the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arawak|Arawaks of the Bahamas]], describing them as:
 //"…so naïve and so free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them would believe it. When you ask for something they have, they never say no. To the contrary, they offer to share with anyone…//