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To understand the history of capitalism, however, we have to begin by realizing that the picture we have in our heads, of workers who dutifully punch the clock at 8:00 a.m. and receive regular remuneration every Friday, on the basis of a contract that either party is free to break off, began as a utopian vision and has never, at any point, been the main way of organizing production for the market, ever, anywhere.

Very intrigued by: “while most of us can imagine what we owe to our parents as a kind of debt, few of us can imagine being able to actually pay it-or even that such a debt ever should be paid. Yet if it can't be paid, in what sense is it a "debt" at all? And if it is not a debt, what is it? “