And for less politicised stuff, there's bizarre descriptions like "Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers

And for less politicised stuff, there's bizarre descriptions like "Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other’s garages…". (Graeber blamed his copyeditor, insisted it was an isolated mistake and then got angry at people for listing his other mistakes.) I actually think the theory of money as debt is broadly correct (and whilst it's not original to Graeber, his treatment is longer and more interesting than others), but it's just very, very sloppy on details. And yeah, you'd prefer a book on debt to not argue that money and bond markets were characterised by people paying tribute...