For Maurizio Lazzarato, the debt crisis is not a crisis of capitalism, but a form of neoliberal domination. It ultimately shows that the market has never been based on the exchange of equal partners, but has always presupposed very unequal power relations. Debt serves as a security apparatus of governance and a control instrument for collective and individual subjectivities. We all use credit, many perhaps only in the form of credit cards. Indebtedness is not just a promise of future repayment; it is, in fact, a bet on the future and an attempt to reduce that future—its possibilities, choices, and decisions—to the present. It also represents a new definition of money, as money manifests itself directly as a command, as an economic and social power.