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Book: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
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  1. Margaret Atwood _ Payback: Debt and the Shadow

    Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.
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  2. Margaret Atwood _ Payback: Debt and the Shadow

    She was an infallible prophetess, and these powers came from her ability to look into the patterns of the universe.
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  3. Margaret Atwood _ Payback: Debt and the Shadow

    Money isn't the only thing that must flow and circulate in order to have good value: good turns and gifts must flow and circulate . . . for any social system to remain in balance.
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  4. Margaret Atwood _ Payback: Debt and the Shadow

    Within each of these categories, the principle was the same: rarity and beauty increased value.
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  5. Margaret Atwood _ Payback: Debt and the Shadow

    In Heaven, there are no debts - all have been paid, one way or another - but in Hell there's nothing but debts, and a great deal of payment is exacted, though you can't ever get all paid up. You have to pay, and pay, and keep on paying. So Hell is like an infernal maxed-out credit card that multiplies the charges endlessly.
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  6. Margaret Atwood _ Payback: Debt and the Shadow

    Another friend of mine used to maintain that airplanes stayed up in the air only because people believed-against reason-that they could fly: without that collective delusion sustaining them, they would instantly plummet to earth.
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  7. Margaret Atwood _ Payback: Debt and the Shadow

    The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102.
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