[glenmorangie_14]

You should check out the book "Debt: The first 5000 years" by Graeber. It covers this topic in depth.

My summary won't do it justice, but basically our society has a myth that society has always been capitalistic, but there is some evidence that is not true. It's a pretty interesting take on some fundamental economic thoughts and theories, because the author is an anthropologist.

[lmm]

It's also littered with factual errors (I'm not an academic but even I spotted an outright falsehood), which makes one rather dubious of the overall thesis.