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Payback

Margaret Atwood

Book cover of Payback

Funny, insightful, entertaining - like a short lecture series.
The idea that the concept of debt is intrinsic the human psyche is a powerful one.

We’d rather have something painful happening to us than nothing happening to us at all.

The 1381 English rebellion was led by a yeoman called Wat Tyler, and one of the participants was a priest named John Ball, who preached a sermon containing the famous rhyme, “When Adam delved and Eve span / Who was then the gentleman?”