Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Hudson has written eloquently and persuasively about the longstanding practice of ...

Hudson has written eloquently and persuasively about the longstanding practice of #jubilee, in which all debts were periodically wiped clean (say, whenever a new king took the throne, or once per generation):

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/24/grandparents-optional-party/#jubilee

Hudson's core maxim is that "debt's that can't be paid won't be paid."

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