Brutkey

David Graeber Institute
@DGI@graeber.social

There are a lot of misconceptions about peoples' desire to work and to contribute.

UBI is expensive, but so is the system we have now and there’s a major savings that you’ll have firing all those people who are assessing who is worthy of what. Philosophically, I think that it’s really important to bear in mind two things. One is it’ll show people that you don’t have to force people to work, to want to contribute. It’s not that people resist work. People resist meaningless work; people resist stupid work; and people resist humiliating work. But I always talk about prisons, where people are fed, clothed, they’ve got shelter; they could just sit around all day. But actually, they use work as a way of rewarding them. You know, if you don’t behave yourself, we won’t let you work in the prison laundry. I mean, people want to work. Nobody just wants to sit around, it’s boring. . - David Graeber