To Have Is to Owe
Due Payment
The battle between the rich and the poor has primarily taken the form of disputes between creditors and debtors for thousands of years. These disputes have involved debates about the morality of interest payments, debt peonage, amnesty, repossession, restitution, sequestering sheep, seizing vineyards, and selling debtors' children into slavery, among other issues. Conversely, during the previous 5,000 years, public uprisings have started in the same way, remarkably consistently: with the ceremonial destruction of debt records, including ledgers, tablets, and papyri, in whatever format they may have existed at any given period and location. During the most recent economic crisis, when the fundamental foundations of capitalism were collapsing, surveys revealed that the vast majority of Americans believed that the nation's banks shouldn't was historical.
