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.
…the Emperor Vespasian. Vespasian was a sort of notorious skin-flint emperor who put a tax on public toilets. And his... His son, Titus, objected to this as sort of isn't this beneath the dignity of an emperor to be collecting money based on excrement?…
…holding it, to the point of being their very sense of honor and integrity, such as the honor of the emperor that Titus was complaining about. And we wonder, this sort of logic even occurs in places where money has been recently inept, abstract, purely…