David Graeber on This Is Hell!
David Graeber
Jonathan
Jul 19, 20263 September 2020
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Anthropologist David Graeber's three interviews on This Is Hell!, talking about fun, bureaucracy and bullshit jobs. RIP David.
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David Graeber argues that play and fun are fundamental to life, nature, and creativity, and that modern culture wrongly treats them as suspicious or secondary. He connects this to bureaucracy, BS jobs, financialization, and inequality, claiming these systems demoralize people, reward pointless work, and obscure more democratic alternatives.
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