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.
…have the flexibility of being wherever in the world you want. So what is the future of work? In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes posed the idea that mankind would solve what he called our economic problem and progress would mean that we would face…
…wrote a piece saying, well, maybe this is the reason that we're not working a 15-hour week. Because, you know, famously, John Maynard Keynes wrote something about 90 years ago now saying that around, you know, in 100 years, we'd all be probably working…
…automation replacing work, people have been talking about that since at least the 1920s and 30s, actually before that. John Maynard Keynes talked about technological unemployment as the reason for the Great Depression. And In fact, others have pointed out…
…the bullshit job phenomena. So I put this piece together. It was almost like a joke. I said, you know, 100 years ago... John Maynard Keynes said that by now we'd all be working a 15 hour week. Automation will have replaced most of our jobs and we'd be…