Money is a social obligation that can be precisely quantified. This succinct nugget of a concept which appears at the end of David Graeber’s magnum opus, Debt:

Money is a social obligation that can be precisely quantified. This succinct nugget of a concept which appears at the end of David Graeber’s magnum opus, Debt: The First 5000 Years, has completely transformed the way I look at and understand the world. It’s as if I was waiting all my life for that exact book.