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.
…kind of thing like that. That would kind of be catchy. And the other thing is, there's a famous quote from Henry Ford who said, if the average American knew how banking actually worked, there'd be a revolution tomorrow morning. Because, for example, I'm…
…happening because certain people figured out the way the tax system really works. And if you figure it out, it's like Henry Ford is supposed to have said about banking. If people really knew how that worked, there'd be a revolution tomorrow morning. I…
…barons created stuff. Yeah, at least they made steel, they made cars, they extracted oil, they did some things. Right, and even Henry Ford, who was a terrible reactionary, understood that his workers had to be paid enough to buy his product. So the idea…
…an attempt to manage demand in such a way and create, to some degree, affluent workers who could actually buy the automobiles that Henry Ford was producing in masses and live in the suburbs that were being produced and all the rest of it. So the volume…