malte on Nostr: Graeber defines debt as the perverse transformation of a commitment into cold ...

Graeber defines debt as the perverse transformation of a commitment into cold calculation using violence. This is basically the same nightmare Weizenbaum was warning us against and that our abuse of computers could accelerate. If we treat humans and machines as interchangeable, we reduce all value judgments to calculations. Our world will be filled with the perverse transformations of our commitments. The history of debt shows that can only be enforced through violence.