It's A Difficult Business, Creating A New,

We Are Usually Told That Democracy Originated In Ancient Athens - Like Science, Or Philosophy, It Was A Greek Invention. It's Never Entirely Clear What This Is Supposed To Mean. Are We Supposed To Believe That Before The Athenians, It Never Really Occurred To Anyone, Anywhere, To Gather All The Members Of Their Community In Order To Make Joint Decisions In A Way That Gave Everyone Equal Say?

Adam Smith Actually Took All His Best Ideas And Lines From Sources From Medieval Persia. But One Thing He Doesn't Take Is The Underlying Assumption They Have That The Basis Of A Market Is Mutual Aid.

I Would Like, Then, To End By Putting In A Good Word For The Non-industrious Poor. At Least They Aren’t Hurting Anyone. Insofar As The Time They Are Taking Time Off From Work Is Being Spent With Friends And Family, Enjoying And Caring For Those They Love, They’re Probably Improving The World More Than We Acknowledge.

There Are Markets Extending From Mali, Indonesia, Way Outside The Purview Of Any One Government Which Operated Under Civil Laws, So Contracts Weren't, Except On Trust. So They Have This Free Market Ideology The Moment They Have Markets Operating Outside The Purview Of The States, As Prior To That Markets Had Really Mainly Existed As A Side Effect Of Military Operations.

A Debt ... Is Just An Exchange That Has Not Been Brought To Completion.