Brutkey

David Graeber Institute
@DGI@graeber.social
β€œBeing poor is actually a full-time job 
and being broke is like a full-time job 
with the amount of paperwork and the 
time going from office to office proving 
what you have done. 
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With Universal Basic Income all that 
would be eliminated with the time 
liberated to do something socially 
productive.”

β€” David Graeber 340d03c6fab5f328.png Don't confuse my hatred of 
the hyperwealthy for jealousy 
over what they have. I don't 
want a 6-figure sports car, 
or a 40-room mansion, or a 
gold leaf truffle steak dinner. 
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I want redistribution of wealth 
that allows for infrastructural 
support of all citizens' basic 
survival needs. 24cf1670933fb026.png "Anarchism is just the way people act when 
they are free to do as they choose, and when 
they deal with others who are equally free, 
and therefore aware of the responsibility to 
others that entails. 

This leads to another crucial point: that while 
people can be reasonable and considerate 
when they are dealing with equals, human 
nature is such that they cannot be trusted to 
do so when given power over others. Give 
someone such power, they will almost 
invariably abuse it in some way or another."
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  - David Graeber 81e69e9943a54e2a.png β€œI would propose that we just rip up the discipline of economics as it exists and start over. This is my proposal in this regard: I think we should take the ideas of production and consumption, throw them away, and substitute for them the idea of care and freedom.

As feminists point out, even if you are making a bridge, you are making a bridge because you care that people can get across the river. You make a car because you care that people can get around. So even production is just one subordinate type of care as what we do as human beings is take care of each other.”

β€” David Graeber 48a703f9ccd42224.png ee6743e6c67968c7.jpg 832a3823e6019623.mp4 "Direct action means insisting on your right 
to act as if you’re already free. If someone 
is doing something bad, you try to stop them, 
in the way you’d hope anyone would act in 
a free and just society. 

If a bunch of cops intervene, you do not 
treat them like authorities, you act as if 
they were a bunch of guys in blue 
costumes with weapons β€” that is, 
basically, a violent street gang."
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  - David Graeber c47d302569cecdde.png b013831ceffc645f.png "Most of us like to talk about freedom in the 
abstract, even claim that it's the most important
thing for anyone to fight or die for, but we don't 
think a lot about what being free or practicing 
freedom might actually mean. The main point of
this book (Bullshit Jobs) was not to propose 
concrete policy prescriptions, but to start us 
thinking and arguing about what a genuine 
free society might actually be like." 89539ada8d1eb5e9.png "Over the course of the last century, the number of 
workers employed in industry and in the farm sector has 
collapsed dramatically. At the same time, professional, 
managerial, clerical, and sales workers tripled, growing 
from one-quarter to three-quarters of total employment:' 

In other words, productive jobs have been largely automated 
away. But rather than allowing a massive reduction of working 
hours to free the world's population to pursue their own projects, 
pleasures and ideas, we have seen the ballooning of the admin 
sector, up to and including the creation of whole new industries 
like financial services or telemarketing, or the unprecedented 
expansion of sectors like corporate law, human resources and PR."

"And these numbers do not even reflect all those whose job 
is to provide administrative, technical, or security support for 
these industries These are what I propose to call Bullshit Jobs."
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.  - David Graeber
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