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.
…called Pecunia Non Olet, which means money doesn't stink. It's an expression which we're reading in Suetonius's Life of the Emperor Vespasian. Vespasian was a sort of notorious skin-flint emperor who put a tax on public toilets. And his... His son, Titus,…
…Pecunia Non Olet, which means money doesn't stink. It's an expression which we're reading in Suetonius's Life of 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…
…in places where money has been recently inept, abstract, purely quantifiable form has been relatively recently introduced. So you have Vespasian and his money based on public journals. Then there's the concept of the money of shit, which immediately came to…