He said this in 2018, but this is exactly what is happening in the UK with the Labour Government and elsewhere
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 19:52:44 JST David Graeber Institute
From the book, Bullshit Jobs.
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 19:50:25 JST David Graeber Institute
This is from David Graeber's Against Economics. You can read the full piece, on our website.
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 21:29:51 JST David Graeber Institute
From: 'Culture as creative refusal.' (2013 by David Graber)
https://davidgraeber.org/papers/culture-as-creative-refusal/
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 19:52:48 JST David Graeber Institute
"Debt is the most efficient means ever created to make relations fundamentally based on violence and inequality seem morally upright."
From, The Machinery of Hopelessness by David Graeber (2011).
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 07:24:12 JST David Graeber Institute
The modern economy is resembling more and more the old feudal system.
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 06:08:10 JST David Graeber Institute
From David Graeber's 2013 piece - A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 19:55:21 JST David Graeber Institute
On April 4th, we are going to provide a lecture by Michael Hudson about Money, Debt and Modern Capitalism.
The lecture will be held on Zoom. If you'd like to come along and get involved in the Q&A, you can register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9jrYrfYgSMizi6PRsnDo4A#/registration
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 11:55:14 JST David Graeber Institute
When asked about the benefits to society of Universal Basic Income, David Graeber mentioned this.
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 17:45:27 JST David Graeber Institute
It is always worth remembering that the level of someone's pay is not an accurate measure to their value to society and importance in the economy.
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 00:26:25 JST David Graeber Institute
How has everything gone so wrong in the last few decades? David Graeber gives us a clue as to what has happened!
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 21:59:05 JST David Graeber Institute
David Graeber on austerity.
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 00:03:14 JST David Graeber Institute
A few thoughts on Universal Basic Income.
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 12:13:57 JST David Graeber Institute
"CEOs and financial consultants that are actually making other people’s lives worse were paid millions, while people fulfilling obviously useful functions like taking care of the sick, teaching children or picking vegetables were the least rewarded."
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 06:51:01 JST David Graeber Institute
The problem of Labour now being the Starmer-Party in a few words.
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 07:11:33 JST David Graeber Institute
In 2011, David Graeber published; Debt: The First 5000 Years.
It is one of those books where you learn a lot of interesting history that is not mentioned on the BBC. Here is an extract from the book.
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 07:11:13 JST David Graeber Institute
When politicians like Keir Starmer claim there is no money, it is always worth recalling what money actually is.
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 19:56:07 JST David Graeber Institute
Michael Hudson's words are always worth taking a minute to read.
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 22:34:56 JST David Graeber Institute
This is something everybody should always keep in mind - especially when on Twitter!
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David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 19:15:45 JST David Graeber Institute
It does not have to be this way.
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