3.5
The best chapter was chapter 4. I'd give that one five stars.

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Powerful and essential reading. Somehow it feels like everything else I read this year culminated in this book. While there could have been further details and less calls to “imagine” in the final chapters, this book is a solid introduction to debt abolition and a wonderful beginning instruction for those interested in joining the fight to pursue it.

I'm down for the debt strike. There's so much good information in this brief book that it's hard to summarize but it talks about the history of debt, how debt is used as a weapon, and why not paying your debt as an individual is a losing battle... but not paying your debt as a collective is a strategy. I'm paraphrasing, but one of the main things I got was "if you owe the bank 100,000 they own you... if you owe them 100 million, you own the bank" - the way we've saddled poor countries (and poor individuals) with debt to benefit a small percentage of countries, corporations, and billionaires is obscene.

this is a really energizing read that illuminated for me how global and almost arbitrary most systems of debt are. where i expected a short book on student debt, i got an expansive historical overview with concrete and global examples. this exceeded my expectations and is a great primer to the case for not only debt abolition but the broader goal of restructuring the economy. excited to read more from the further reading section!