As Richard Dienst (2011), David Graeber (2011) and affirm, the politics of debt, if they are to be a radical challenge to the financialized empire, cannot simply be a demand for some libertarian fantasy of complete individual freedom. Rather, it must embrace a broader, more capacious concept of the ontological wealth of social bonds that make life possible, that render all of us precariously reliant on one another. In this sense, they, each in their own way, encourage a envisioning of an expanded notion of debt as a grounds for crafting and building common futures.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 237