David Graeber
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Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
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.
…big innovation is he got the idea of using palm oil instead of tallow in soaps. But he was also a good friend of King Leopold of Belgium. And essentially, you can see where this is going, right? It turns out that the way that he made the fortune,…
…was through slave labor in the Congo. Essentially, they set up this giant palm oil plantation. He was given 178,000 acres by King Leopold to do it on. Thousands of people died in the process. So basically, this money is coming from the very heart of…