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.
…give people money, and then it'll create demand, and employers will hire people. Now, the new trickle-down approach, which has been since Reagan at least, has always been, no, no, no, no, the employers know best. They are job creators, right? So we give…
…give people money, and then it'll create demand, and employers will hire people. Now, the new trickle-down approach, which has been since Reagan at least... has always been, no, no, no, no, the employers know best. They are job creators, right? So we give…
…in order to attain the money that they think they need, attain the campaign funds they need so they can get the Reagan Democrats? Yeah, well, I mean, there's a system of bribery. I mean, they're not allowed to actually promote actual left-wing policies.…
…I was developing at the time about the neoliberal free market ideology that had dominated the world since the days of Thatcher and Reagan. It was really the opposite of what it claimed to be. It was really a political project dressed up as an economic…
…in order to attain the money that they think they need, attain the campaign funds they need so they can get the Reagan Democrats? Yeah, well, I mean, there's a system of bribery. I mean, they're not allowed to actually promote actual left-wing policies.…
…I was developing at the time about the neoliberal free market ideology that had dominated the world since the days of Thatcher and Reagan. It was really the opposite of what it claimed to be. It was really a political project dressed up as an economic…
…I was developing at the time about the neoliberal free market ideology that had dominated the world since the days of Thatcher and Reagan. It was really the opposite of what it claimed to be. It was really a political project dressed up as an economic…
…in order to attain the money that they think they need, attain the campaign funds they need so they can get the Reagan Democrats? Yeah, well, I mean, there's a system of bribery. I mean, they're not allowed to actually promote actual left-wing policies.…
…73, we've had a debt-centric growth through things like the increase in consumer spending that's predicated upon easy credit, with Thatcher and Reagan, this notion that we can all own our own home and so on. But growth after 1945 also is heavily dependent…
…Republicans aren't aware of that. You know, first of all, as Dick Cheney famously remarked when the Republicans were running things, Reagan taught us that deficits don't matter. You know, they knew perfectly well that that doesn't matter. And in fact, in…