Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, winner of the British Booker (2000), wrote a lengthy essay on debt, or rather, the idea of debt. Noting at the beginning of the book the well-known fact that most of the population of the United States and Canada lives on credit.
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, winner of the British Booker (2000), wrote a lengthy essay on debt, or rather, the idea of debt. Having noted at the beginning of the book the well-known fact that most of the population of the United States and Canada lives on credit, Atwood embarks on a free philosophical swim, trying to figure out what is worse from a moral point of view — to be a debtor or a creditor, how the topic of debt is reflected in world religions and the world. literature (in the XNUMXth century, in an era of capital growth, Atwood concludes, this topic became key) and what bad debts led to in history — from the creation of debtors’ prisons to reprisals against creditors. These reflections end with a witty remake of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
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