![]() They’re not anything set in stone,” says Graeber, author of “Debt: The First 5,000 Years.” “It’s, generally speaking, when you have debts owed by the poor to the rich that suddenly debts become a sacred obligation, more important than anything else. “Debts between the very wealthy or between governments can always be renegotiated and always have been throughout world history. ![]() His wife, Nika Dubrovsky, tweeted on September 3, “Yesterday the best person in a world, my husband and my friend… died in a hospital in Venice.” Graeber was a world-renowned anthropologist who is often credited with coming up with part of the slogan, “We are the 99 percent.” Watch Part 1 of our interview with Graeber, just days after the 2011 launch of “Occupy Wall Street.”Īs President Obama prepares to outline a deficit-reduction plan that includes tax increases, as well as cuts to programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, anthropologist David Graeber proposes a radical solution: cancel the debt of the nation’s poor. ![]() Editor’s Note: David Graeber has died at the age of 59. ![]()
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