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"people are literally downvoting my inoffensive genuine conversation with another user about bakhtin and rabelais' gargantua and pantagruel and the new david graeber book"
"One of the reasons that has led to the phenomena of BS jobs, as Graeber put it."
"He also was hurt by taking every survey respondent on face value, iirc one of them was someone who claimed his job was to extinguish candles and watch them for 2 hours who quit to go live in an anarchist collective, sorry, not a real guy. Equally, I get what he meant by saying that some people are i"
"And for the very large portion of the college-educated who will end up with a David Graeber-style bullshit job regardless, so they should study what they want."
"It doesn't have to be some dense opaque academic work, I mean stuff like "Debt" by Graeger which is full of interesting and novel thoughts but also accessible and well written."
"I'd give up my left nut to hear his thoughts on the AI boom"
"I'd give up my left nut to hear his thoughts on the AI boom"
"the fundamental historical break that ushered in our current economic regime occurred in 1971, the date that the U.S. dollar went off the gold standard."