…is it takes some IOUs and say, those are the only kind you can use for legal purposes, specifically to pay your taxes. by the Queen to you. If you look at it, it says so. Have you ever looked at what it actually says? There's a £10 note. There's the…

…Queen to you. If you look at it, it says so. Have you ever looked at what it actually says? There's a £10 note. There's the Queen, and it says, I promise to pay the bearer the sum of £10. This is not £10. This is the Queen promising to pay you…

…a £10 note. There's the Queen, and it says, I promise to pay the bearer the sum of £10. This is not £10. This is the Queen promising to pay you £10. Therefore, you can give it to her if you owe her £10, and your tax says, and that cancels out. So,…

…is Aicha Chibukcu, who is the author of the book. Tor Crever, who is one of the speakers, Professor Kimberly Hutchins from Queen Mary, Professor David Graeber from LSE, Dr. Laurie Allen from SOAS, and Haifa. Thank you. Do you have a university affiliation?…

…the Bank of England that then gets circulated on to other people. And if you look at a £10 note, for example, there's a picture of the Queen and it says, I promise to pay the bearer the sum of £10. So it is a debt owed by the Queen to you. How do…

…there's a picture of the Queen and it says, I promise to pay the bearer the sum of £10. So it is a debt owed by the Queen to you. How do you Well, what do you get for it? You know, there was a time you could get silver. Now you can't. But now…

…students, I mean, I thought... Okay, that sounds cool. But then I heard that most of them are from overseas. This is in London. Queen Mary and places like that. And I thought, now wait a minute. I'm not sure how you feel about this. Because here we…

…unique. I don't know. There's a lot of places where the person on the very top is female, but that doesn't apply to Queen Elizabeth. That doesn't mean much. There's a lot of societies where you can make the argument on the domestic level women are very…

…to them in the form of banknotes. I have some British banknotes in my pocket. They still say that. They have a picture of the Queen, and it says, I promise to pay the bearer the sum of 10 pounds. So a banknote is not 10 pounds. It's a promise from…

…and it says, I promise to pay the bearer the sum of 10 pounds. So a banknote is not 10 pounds. It's a promise from the Queen to give you 10 pounds, which, of course, you could cancel out against what you owe to her in the form of taxes. That's what…

…I was very lucky. Yeah. The gilded captivity now. Right. And of course, we're both in London. So I suppose that now after the Queen has spoken and said that we're all in this together, I suppose you feel much safer and you have more faith in the…