I haven’t read any of David Graeber’s books. Your comment doesn’t make his thesis clear, but I do know what’s written in the Code of Hammurabi: “If any one is

I haven’t read any of David Graeber’s books. Your comment doesn’t make his thesis clear, but I do know what’s written in the Code of Hammurabi: “If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.” https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Codex_Hammurabi_(King_translation) https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Codex_Hammurabi_(King_trans... Likewise in pre-Columbian Mexico, as per the Florentine Codex: “It was a crime to light a fire in the woods without permission, to cut down trees, to move boundary-markers, to take game from another man’s hunting trap and to steal crops from the fields. All these were crimes that could be punished by death.” https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/ask-experts/which-were-the-most-common-crimes-among-the-aztecs https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/ask-experts/which-were-t...