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.
…are at facebook.com slash worttalk, and you can tweet us at worttalk. And it looks like we do have a caller on the line. Hi, Will. Okay. Will, are you there? Yeah. Can you hear me? Yes. Go ahead. Hi. I had a question. I kind of was thinking about…
…facebook.com slash worttalk, and you can tweet us at worttalk. And it looks like we do have a caller on the line. Hi, Will. Okay. Will, are you there? Yeah. Can you hear me? Yes. Go ahead. Hi. I had a question. I kind of was thinking about the... I…
…are at facebook.com slash worttalk, and you can tweet us at worttalk. And it looks like we do have a caller on the line. Hi, Will. Okay. Will, are you there? Yeah. Can you hear me? Yes. Go ahead. Hi. I have a question. I kind of was thinking about…
…facebook.com slash worttalk, and you can tweet us at worttalk. And it looks like we do have a caller on the line. Hi, Will. Okay. Will, are you there? Yeah. Can you hear me? Yes. Go ahead. Hi. I have a question. I kind of was thinking about the... I…
…have Katja Kipping, who is leader of the Die Linke Party in Germany, Germany's leading left party. And Lauren, her translator. My name is Will. I co-run Autonomy, a think tank all about the future of work. To that end, I think the order is going to be…
…will go forth and go from the south into the north where the more hardline groups are? That's the big test to me. Will they go into the north, North Waziristan, where I was held prisoner, where the Haqqani network operates, and where until now the…
…what we might think of as entitlements. The difficulty is to figure out how it will work when you turn it on. Will human rights and humanitarian laws civilize the military or be co-opted by them? Can we say anything about how the relative persuasiveness…
…Yes, my name is Darminda. Darminda, you have 13 votes, so everybody really likes your question. Thank you for that. Will artificial intelligence kill it? No. No, artificial intelligence is making it worse in certain sectors, even though it's making it…
…in about five minutes. Okay, yeah. But what are you hoping will happen to people once they've read it? What will they do? Will they acknowledge how bullshit their own job is? Or how will they change the world from that moment? Well, I think it's…
…just making up these bullshit jobs. I mean, nobody planned it quite, but it seems to suit the purposes of those in power. Or Will, actually, was the first person to argue that. He said that there's making up jobs to keep people off the street. But I…