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Debt is an artifact of finance, not of capitalism. If some genius tomorrow announced a way to have money creation without the attendant debt overhang, we'd do that instead.

Capitalism would still be exactly the same. Debt precedes capitalism by... the entirety of human history.

The map is not the territory and accounting and finance are technologies that attend to productive enterprise, not the enterprises themselves.



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