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.
…of the points of getting everybody in debt, getting everybody in a mortgage, is to make effective strikes impossible. I mean, Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve, actually admitted this at one point. He says that we can push down wages simply by giving…
…very hard to say. Sometimes people sort of at upper echelons where they're running things do actually say things like that. Alan Greenspan is always a good source on that because occasionally he'd say what he was thinking. I remember he once actually said,…
…of Anne Rand. She's a very important philosopher in to the Silicon Valley people. A lot of them are Anne Rand followers. Alan Greenspan is an Anne Rand follower. There are plenty of them in high places. And I'll just read something that I found just…
…well that that doesn't matter. And in fact, in contrast, when Bill Clinton actually balanced the budget back in the 90s, Alan Greenspan, the ultra-Anne Randian Republican, He freaked out. I am advocating some kind of broad jubilee. And I should emphasize to…
…rid of the debt entirely, realized that this would be a terrible idea. And that goes from the Clinton people to people like Alan Greenspan, the Ayn Randian, who you know, started saying, you know, well, he had to come up with an excuse for why it would…
…everybody panicked they did projections they discovered that you know if there was no debt the economy would collapse even people like Alan Greenspan were saying well no we have to have a deficit and he couldn't admit it because you know that would be a…