Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition - Debt Collective

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\n \nDebtors 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. \n \nThe 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? \n \nThe 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. \n \nArmed 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. \n \n\n \nDebtors of the World Must Unite. \n \nAs 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. \n \nIndividually, our debts overwhelm us. But together, our debts can make us powerful.\n \n \n

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Haymarket Books

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9781642592627

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