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.
…a lot of social problems. And third of all, all you need is one of those musicians to actually be Miles Davis or John Lennon or something like that. All you need is one of those guys to actually invent a perpetual motion device or a teleportation…
…ones who do decide that they want to be scientists 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…
…like some new great musical trend coming out of England anymore? There isn't. Why? Because like whoever would have been the next John Lennon is stocking boxes in a Tesco somewhere. And that's what debt does too. It takes all the most creative people and…
…think about the waste of human resources. I mean, we probably have people out there who... could have been Joe Strummer or John Lennon, who are now doing some stupid menial job because a moralist doesn't want to give them money. I mean, who's actually…
…filling out forms all day. And number three, all you need 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…
…have enough money that you could get your friends together a guitar and maybe one out of a thousand of them was John Lennon, but that's enough. And now John Lennon is lifting boxes in some department store as welfare conditionality. So we're never gonna…
…your friends together a guitar and maybe one out of a thousand of them was John Lennon, but that's enough. And now John Lennon is lifting boxes in some department store as welfare conditionality. So we're never gonna hear the new trend. So I just think…