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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.
…A History, A Crisis, A Movement. That does it for Letters and Politics. The show is produced by Diana Martinez, Laura Privis, Irene Flores, and Eileen Alfanderi. Kirsten Thomas is the engineer. I'm Mitch Desrich. Thanks for listening. Thank you. Thank…
…I want to just put that on the table for now and go to this original question that framed the discussion, the one that Laura is wanting us to replace with some other questions. How is bad money made good? For me, that opens up the more general…
…kind of paying forward. Right. The settling of old debts. that also results in the creation of new debts, new relations, Laura would probably say. So that's another little bundle. How is bad money made good? And let's think about those infrastructures,…
…change. If that's what you heard. So we've got three minutes before we finish to deal with these almost impossible things. Laura. Yes, I'd like to speak to the gentleman's question about this apparent paradox of amassing fortunes in India and then seeking…
…And You know, it's partly what does access then open up for people? Does it open up new sets of relations the way that Laura was talking? Or does it immediately suture them into the kind of closed game and closed mentality that David is alluding to? I…
…how student debt immiserates us, not just socially or economically, but also culturally and intellectually. I was just talking with Laura Nader earlier about student loans destroying the imagination of youth. If there's a way of a society committing mass…
…is mapping onto race in particular forms of violence. So I was wondering whether we could think a bit about just what Laura is saying, the comparison across places, but also across time. Because what you seem to imply in that chapter in particular is…
…be a better solution? That's a very nice idea. Not to mention government. You could get rid of those guys too. I'm Laura Partridge. My question is about the non-bullshit jobs. So you mentioned bullshit jobs like being a corporate lawyer that actually have,…
…that sort of brings us home about these people called the Tib who live in central Nigeria. And there's an anthropologist named Laura Bohannon. wrote up of her experiences when she first did field work there. So she shows up, gets a house, doesn't really…