DAVID GRAEBER or THE MARKET DOESN´T EXIST

ENJOY PHILOSOPHY MEETS WEEKLY EVERY SUNDAY BETWEEN 11.00 AND 14.00 AT EDUARDO VII PARK, HERE:\*\* [https://goo.gl/maps/5e3jKFEweXkNvDdK6](https://goo.gl/maps/5e3jKFEweXkNvDdK6) **ITS THE GARDEN BETWEEN THE “CARLOS LOPES PAVILLION” AND THE “PRAIA NO PARQUE” RESTAURANT AT EDUARDO VII PARK.** THIS IS A GROUP FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN ENJOYING PHILOSOPHY. NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE IS REQUIRED. ONLY ETERNAL CURIOSITY AND THE PLEASURE OF KNOWLEDGE. PLS KEEP UPDATED of any changes and updates on our WhatsApp Group: [Enjoy Philosophy Lisbon Group Access-Link](https://chat.whatsapp.com/EgaLvlLCAbSL00cYmhpOSu) We will learn, debate, enjoy and investigate philosophers and diverse themes from the philosophical perspective. Each reunion is structured as a conversation among all attendees about that day s philosopher softly moderated by the organizer. The conversation will kick-off from the very brief suggested reading providing easy access to all attendees both to the philosopher and the conversation. Let´s be greek and dive today on… **David Graeber (1961 - 2020), American Anthropologist whose influential work in economic Anthropoloy (*[Debt: The First 5,000 Years](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5,000_Years "Debt: The First 5,000 Years")* , *[Bullshit Jobs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs "Bullshit Jobs")* ), challenges some strongly rooted assumptions that kicked off with the writings of Adam Smith, the first and foremost the existence of a so called "market" with its own laws, a belief which grounds many economic positions and policies of our times. The moral dimension of the debt is one of the main focuses of Graeber s exploration, considering the criminalization of the debtors part of broad historical paradigm were debtors appear as result of predatory lending, unequal power, enclosure and dispossession, warfare.. etc becoming a shameful status, often criminal, where the lendors paradoxically ocuppy a moral upper hand they instrumentalize in total assymetrical ways. Therefore banks debts are often condoned (Too big to fail) as well as rich nations debts as oposed to student s loans (USA), Poor nations loans (IMF), Poor people medical loans... etc... In other words the exploration of the fundamental role of debt on the current state of affairs, specially in Capitalist societies, and its moral dimension gives his work an unprecedented power and permanent actuality and relevance.** **Since the Hammurabi Code times there hasn t been a real condonation of debt, Graeber contends.** **So lets think with David...**