David Graeber
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Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
c/david-graeber
Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…he takes ideas directly from these guys. The pin factory, which we all remember, the example of division of labor, Apparently Al-Ghazali, writing around 1100, has a needle factory where it takes 25 operations to make a needle. It's clear Adam Smith got…
…Smith actually got most of his best ideas and best lines from medieval Islam. like the pin factories. It actually comes from Al-Ghazali in 1100. He had a needle factory. And it's made possible by what? By Sharia. Because Sharia is civil law that operates…