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.
…or musicians... Well, all you need is, like, just one of them to be John Lennon or just one of them to be Einstein, and, you know, you basically got your money back. Right. And, of course, if there's a whole bunch of bad pottery, people aren't…
…all your time writing grants, reading grants, trying to cut down other people's grants, reviewing things. I mean, people have said Einstein would have been destroyed. He never could have... First of all, his stuff wouldn't have been published. He never would…
…is just one of those bad musicians to be Miles Davis or John Lennon or something, or one of those scientists to be Einstein. We will end up with more brilliant people. Yeah, and the world will be better off. You'll have made your investment. I think…
…I remember when I was in a physics class. This was junior high school, whatever they call it now. And I learned from Einstein the universe is finite. They taught us that. And I thought, wait a minute. The universe is finite. That means there's a finite…