The hype for this book is justified. It is such a loss that we will not see an entire creation of work from David Graeber continuing what he began here, he died tragically young (necrotic pancreatitis but probably connected COVID-19). Are the conditions of late stage capitalism as we currently have them an inevitable historical evolution or does actual data disentangled from opinion point otherwise?

I found this book enlightening (the Minoan civilization!), brilliantly optimistic, and reasonable. I also found it to be an entertaining read. Less scholarly, more conversational (for me, for this, a good thing).