David Graeber: The appeal of market-based ideologies is not hard to understand... It also has the advantage of presenting us with an extremely simple set of propositions. We are unique individuals who have unlimited desires; since there is no natural cut-off point at which anyone will have enough power, or money, or pleasure, or material possessions, and since resources are scarce, this means we will always be in at least tacit competition........ promoters of the market claim to be acting in the name of human freedom, as simply opening the way for individuals to make up their own minds about what they want from life without anyone noticing that most of the individuals in question spend the vast majority of their waking hours running around at someone else's beck and call. It's a pretty neat trick if you think about it.
From "Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value - The Fasle Coin of Our Own Dreams" by David Graeber of Yale University.
Photo location: Baan Hintoom, Uthaitani province
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