Graeber, chapter 3
If one were looking for the ethos for an individualistic society such as our own, one way to do it might well be to say: we all owe an infinite debt to humanity, society, nature, or the cosmos (however one prefers to frame it), but no one else could possibly tell us how we are to pay it.
By definition, an infinite debt cannot be repaid. Even if you could pay half of it, the unpaid debt would still be infinite.
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