Instead of the daily stock market - we could have an indicator for the number of homeless people?

This is a passage from the book, Bullshit Jobs. Here David Graeber gives a good explanation of how the political class like the tactic of divide and rule.

This message is now more relevant than ever.

Few people enjoy this kind of dexterity with plain, clear English. Least of all academics. Great definition. David Graeber was a treasure.

"In the bible, it is not paying your debts that is sacred - it's forgiving debts, it's cancelling debts - Jubilee!" - David Graeber.

From David Graeber's 'Revolutions in Reverse' (2011).

My latest for the LRB is on the insights of David Graeber's 'baseline communism', and 'dialling to the left'. As Ayça Çubukçu puts it, Graeber was an anthropologist of human possibilities. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

In London Review of Books delightful wander through work of the late, great David Graeber. The headline? "Baseline communism happens wherever ‘no accounts are taken': giving a stranger directions, offering food to a guest, fixing friend’s car" lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

🪩 Call for workshops Carnival4David: Playground for remaking worlds Submit your idea by 18 August and join David Graeber Institute & LEAP Lab to celebrate the life and work of Radical Optimist David Graeber with a day of creative workshops on 20 September crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47400/

It is the knock-on effects of Neoliberal policies that often are the most dangerous.

Anthropologist David Graeber getting biblical!

“Everyday we wake up and collectively make a world together; but which one of us, left to our own devices, would ever decide they wanted to make a world like this one?” — David Graeber, “Bullshit Jobs: A Theory”

David Graeber explained how much about our economic system resembles Feudalism.

Must see, must heard… must UNDERSTAND ⚠️⬇️

Yes.

🪩 Call for workshops Carnival4David: Playground for remaking worlds Submit your idea by 18 August and join David Graeber Institute & LEAP Lab to celebrate the life and work of Radical Optimist David Graeber with a day of creative workshops on 20 September crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47400/

Some thoughts on Capitalism, from the book; THE ULTIMATE HIDDEN TRUTH OF THE WORLD (page 104)