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I'm an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such. I see anarchism as something you do not an identity so don't call me the anarchist anthropologist
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Labour MP for Norwich South: “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently” David Graeber
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"La Economía es un elaborado sistema de extracción, respaldado por el sistema de juzgados, prisiones y policía, así como la complicidad del gobierno con las corporaciones al dejarlas crear dinero por medio de la deuda." - David Graeber
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My best reading of the year: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
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Todas las navidades me guardo una semana para leer un libro demasiado gordo para ser leído leer fuera de periodo vacacional. El mío este año es 'The Dawn of everything' de David Graeber y David Wengrow. ¿Cuál es el vuestro?
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When David Graeber called the police "armed bureaucrats" this is what he meant. The police spend most of their time intervening in administrative violations. In this case, enforcing where someone can sleep, sit, or lie down.
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An LAPD officer tells an unhoused man he didn't move his tent and belongings far enough, during a "major cleaning" this morning in CD13. Says everything needs to be moved at least one block away.
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David Graeber's biggest contribution to the libertarian cause was that he created a realistic plan to achieve the goal of no taxation. Since Graber proved how money was basically a legal fiction, created by the state, he allowed us to understand how taxes are unnecessary,
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Une enquête de David Graeber, un économiste américain, démontre que les jobs à la con sont mieux payés que les jobs productifs et que ces jobs productifs sont de plus en plus souvent phagocytés par des tâches administratives inutiles et envahissantes.
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God, I hate David Graeber. I saw the clip of him rejecting "bosses vs. workers" paradigm of class struggle for "managers vs. caregiver." I also learned his book Dawn of Everything rejects materialism. F*cking anarchists.
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"Siempre que alguien comienza a hablar del libre mercado, es buena idea buscar alrededor al tipo con la pistola". De libro "La utopía de las normas: De la tecnología, la estupidez y los secretos placeres de la burocracia". Libro de David Graeber, antropólogo.
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4/ In this remarkable work, David Graeber uncovers how "Bullsh*t Jobs" have proliferated in the modern economy. He explores many complex socio-economic and psychological causes, including our very existential relationship to the concept of work.
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"Siempre que alguien comienza a hablar del libre mercado, es buena idea buscar alrededor al tipo con la pistola". De libro "La utopía de las normas: De la tecnología, la estupidez y los secretos placeres de la burocracia". Libro de David Graeber, antropólogo.
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📚Books To Bookmark For Holidays : Debt: The First 5000 Years by The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky Crime And Punishment by Dostoevsky When Money Dies By Adam Fergusson ₿
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"Revolutions are thus planetary phenomena. But there is more. What they really do is transform basic assumptions about what politics is ultimately about." ~ David Graeber. From 2013, but always a good reading as a friendly reminder.
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