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Debt: The First 5,000 Years | David Graeber | Talks at Google
Talks at Google · 8 HN recommenders · 8 recommendation months
Recommended by 8 Hacker News commenters across 8 months (2013–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 12 other talk videos tagged Microeconomics & behavioral economics, the mean is 2.4 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 8 distinct HN recommenders, about 3.3× that mean. Recommendations span 8 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 2.5 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
62% of its 13 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2013–2024; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 81 minutes 10 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2012-02-09.
- Channel / speaker
- Talks at Google
- Verified runtime
- 1h 21m 10s
- YouTube upload date
- 2012-02-09
- Hacker News mention years
- 2013–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Microeconomics & behavioral economics. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debt: The First 5,000 Years | David Graeber | Talks at GoogleCurrent video | 8 | 8 | 62% | — | 1h 21m 10s | 2012-02-09 |
| The Psychology of Human Misjudgement - Charlie Munger Full Speechtalk · BuffettMungerWisdom | 6 | 6 | 86% | No recorded overlap | 76m 23s | 2013-01-14 |
| The paradox of choice | Barry Schwartz | TEDtalk · TED | 4 | 4 | 80% | 1 (13%) | 20m 23s | 2007-01-16 |
| RSA ANIMATE: First as Tragedy, Then as Farcetalk · Royal Society of Arts | 3 | 3 | 43% | No recorded overlap | 10m 57s | 2010-07-28 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Ask HN: Should there be "computer showers" similar to "baby showers"?”. Its short rationale: Gifts create reciprocal obligations, i.e. debts.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces”. Its short rationale: Cited on debt cancellation and Jubilee.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “The language of labouring reveals its tortured roots (2013)”. Its short rationale: Shorter version of Graeber's book on debt's surprising history.