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What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by Basement_Dweller@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Money being necessary is incidental to how our society is structured. There's a lot of ways society can and has functioned without a universal equivalent, regardless of the state of abundance.

Similarly, interest not being evil is actually fairly new and unique to modern society. It's pretty common historically and in different cultural contexts for interest-free debt to be a norm.

Which suggests these norms are likely specific to capitalism and its ideology rather than universal common sense.

Graeber's Debt and The Dawn of Everything are anthropological works relevant to this topic that you might find interesting.