Another point that Debt: The First 5000 Years makes that I thought was very interesting - while there's social pressure for everyone to move from being more ind

Another point that Debt: The First 5000 Years makes that I thought was very interesting - while there's social pressure for everyone to move from being more indebted to less indebted to others, however trying to pay it down to exactly 0 is an anti-social move that implies "I don't need you, don't want to be needed by you and don't want to be in relationship with you any more". He gives examples of societies where you always return gifts with other gifts, but being careful never to return a gift of the exact same type and value. Or of situations where someone pays a parent back for the debt of caring for them as children, and what such an action means. Indebtedness to each other is the appropriate state of humans in community.