Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition - The Debt Collective, Astra Taylor - foreword
Language: EnglishKeywords:
collective
Democracy
Economics
Occupy Wall Street
Politics & Government
Politics & Social Sciences
Socialism
Strike
Unons
Workers
Shared by:Guest
Written by ,
Read by Nancy Peterson
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay
The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition
By: The Debt Collective, Astra Taylor - foreword
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
Release date: 09-29-20
Language: English
Publisher’s Summary
Debtors have been mocked, scolded, and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go to school, or even to pay for our own incarceration. We’ve been told there is no way to change an economy that pushes the majority of people into debt while a small minority hoard wealth and power. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed that mass indebtedness and extreme inequality are a political choice.
In the early days of the crisis, elected officials drew up plans to spend trillions of dollars. The only question was: where would the money go and who would benefit from the bailout?
The truth is that there has never been a lack of money for things like housing, education, and health care. Millions of people never needed to be forced into debt for those things in the first place.
Armed with this knowledge, a militant debtors movement has the potential to rewrite the contract and assure that no one has to mortgage their future to survive.
Debtors of the world must unite. As isolated individuals, debtors have little influence. But as a bloc, we can leverage our debts and devise new tactics to challenge the corporate creditor class and help win reparative, universal public goods. Individually, our debts overwhelm us. But together, our debts can make us powerful.
©2020 The Debt Collective (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
| Announce URL: | udp://tracker.leechers-paradise.org:6969/announce |
| This Torrent also has several backup trackers | |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.leechers-paradise.org:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.open-internet.nl:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.tiny-vps.com:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://open.demonii.si:1337/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.torrent.eu.org:451/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://thetracker.org:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://open.trackerlist.xyz:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker2.dler.org:80/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.leechers-paradise.org:6969 |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969 |
| Creation Date: | Sat, 14 Aug 2021 08:29:36 +0200 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition.m4b 248.48 MBs | |
| Combined File Size: | 248.48 MBs |
| Piece Size: | 256 KBs |
| Comment: | Updated by AudioBook Bay |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| Info Hash: | 1ac494fce732bc87244400410b2f38233a5fff17 |
| Torrent Download | Torrent Free Downloads |
| Tips | Sometimes the torrent health info isn’t accurate, so you can download the file and check it out or try the following downloads. |
| Direct Download | Start Direct Download |
| Tips | You could try out alternative bittorrent clients. |
| Secured Download | Download Files Now |
| Ad |
|
This post has 9 comments with rating of 5/5
August 14th, 2021
See? We didn’t even pay for this book.
August 14th, 2021
You’ll pay for that comment, Poppy. Just u see if u don’t!
August 14th, 2021
Chasing the impossible.
Yes, it’s sad thst most of society is drpendant on debt, it’s unavoidable.
August 15th, 2021
Can’t pay, won’t pay, living under a bridge…
August 15th, 2021
Of course there are exceptions, but if someone is stupid enough to go into debt for something they don’t have the money to pay for, and in most cases don’t need, their problem isn’t money - it’s intellect.
On the face of it with just the publisher’s summary and having not read/listened to it yet, it sounds like a typical victim perspective. They chained the debtors to chairs, put a pen in their hands and electroshocked them until they signed?
No, virtually every debtor chose to go into debt; no one forced them, and they signed an agreement of their own free will. Now someone comes along and tells them that integrity doesn’t matter; honor doesn’t matter. Even though they promised, eyes-wide-open, to pay for what they got, now they want to abrogate the debt, and still retain whatever it is they bought. There’s a word for that: THEFT!
August 15th, 2021
An easy step by stop guide to homelessness.
August 15th, 2021
@Brillo
I don’t think you know what duress is.
With that said, it has always been my policy to extend honor to the honorable and to cheat thieves before they cheat me. Since debt is almost always incurred with corporations, who are the sociopathic devils of the modern world, I pat myself on the back when I take their money and return nothing. This is the way of capitalism.
August 15th, 2021
And by doing so, enrouting, you show yourself with the same lack of integrity as those who cheat. You just have a different name for it. That is evidence that, were you running said corporations, you would cheat anyone using the same rationalizations those viper pit companies use.
Make no mistake, you are the same. Your unspoken motto would be that the end justifies the means.
August 20th, 2021
Brillo is just here for the comments; hasn’t downloaded anything at all - honest!
Add a comment (please log in before commenting)