Whoopsies! Apparently, #DavidGraeber thinks that people who conduct surveys are one of those #BullshitJobs. Well, I'd rather be farming and librarianing (is this a word? It is now) anyways!
#DavidGraeber
@cerement For those who don't know...
#DavidGraeber's List of Bullshit Jobs:
"Graeber states that more than half of societal work is pointless, both large parts of some jobs and five types of entirely pointless jobs:
- Flunkies, who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants, store greeters;
- Goons, who act to harm or deceive others on behalf of their employer, or to prevent other goons from doing so, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists;
- Duct tapers, who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing shoddy code, airline desk staff who calm passengers with lost luggage;
- Box tickers, who create the appearance that something useful is being done when it is not, e.g., survey administrators, in-house magazine journalists, corporate compliance officers, academic administration;
- Taskmasters, who create extra work for those who do not need it, e.g., middle management, leadership professionals."
@gustavoduch me ha hecho pensar en este fragmento del libro El amanecer de todo de #davidgraeber y #davidwengrow donde habla de #colonizacion y #agricultura:
(ahora me he fijado que he puesto las fotos en orden inverso y edito para que quien lo lea, no se vuelva loc@)
Came across this in a post about #SolarPunk a few weeks ago (post may be gone)... Anyhow, I've been reading #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow's book, "The Dawn of Everything," and thought the question posited by #Graeber was relevant to #SolarPunkSunday...
Are You An #Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!
"Every time you treat another human with consideration and respect, you are being an anarchist. Every time you work out your differences with others by coming to reasonable compromise, listening to what everyone has to say rather than letting one person decide for everyone else, you are being an anarchist. Every time you have the opportunity to force someone to do something, but decide to appeal to their sense of reason or justice instead, you are being an anarchist. The same goes for every time you share something with a friend, or decide who is going to do the dishes, or do anything at all with an eye to fairness"
David Graeber, The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World, p 243, published 2009
"Chances are you have already heard something about who anarchists are and what they are supposed to believe. Chances are almost everything you have heard is nonsense. Many people seem to think that anarchists are proponents of violence, chaos, and destruction, that they are against all forms of order and organization, or that they are crazed nihilists who just want to blow everything up. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to. It is really a very simple notion. But it’s one that the rich and powerful have always found extremely dangerous.
At their very simplest, anarchist beliefs turn on to two elementary assumptions. The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how. The second is that power corrupts. Most of all, anarchism is just a matter of having the courage to take the simple principles of common decency that we all live by, and to follow them through to their logical conclusions. Odd though this may seem, in most important ways you are probably already an anarchist — you just don’t realize it.
Let’s start by taking a few examples from everyday life."
Read more:
https://davidgraeber.org/articles/are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-maysurprise-you/
#SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #BuildingResilience #NoKings #NoRulers #Inequality #PowerCorrupts
David Wengrow: The History of Human Civilization | Doomscroll
0:00 Atlantis (it’s real)
0:49 Pyramids & the new race
5:27 Indo-europeans vs aryans
15:07 Indigenous enlightenment
36:44 Rousseau & inequality
52:57 History vs teleology
1:00:38 Stone Henge vs farming
1:12:53 Poverty Point
1:18:59 Capitalism vs empire
1:35:01 International law vs might
1:49:59 Third freedom & David Graeber
#DavidGraeber, an American #anthropologist and #anarchist activist, was born on #ThisDayInHistory in 1961. He studied under #MarshallSahlins, helped drive the #OccupyWallStreet movement, and wrote important and influential books like #TheDawnOfEverything, #BullshitJobs, & #Debt.
Neuer Plausch mit #DavidWengrow lohnt sich sowohl für alle, die Vertiefung und aktuelle Ergänzung zu »The Dawn of Everything« (zusammen mit #DavidGraeber 2021; Dt. »Anfänge« 2022) suchen, als auch alle, denen der Schinken zu dick ist.
Bietet wertvolle Rundschau zu den Reibungen zwischen historisch-ideologischen Mythen und soziologisch-archäologischen Erkenntnissen.
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Samu Kuoppa: David Graeber ja optimistinen anarkia
https://vitanuovablogi.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/david-graeber-ja-optimistinen-anarkia/
#VitaNuova #DavidGraeber #PerimmäinenSalattuTotuusMaailmasta #anarkia #anarkismi
#davidgraeber #reread #sachbuch #anarchie
Bürokratie - Die Utopie der Regeln
[A] great embarrassing fact [that] haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.”
David Graeber
that's a great splash screen to start a documentary
Adam Curtis: Can't get you out of my head (free on youtube)
#davidGraeber
Next up in our book club: “The Dawn of Everything” by David Graeber / David Wengrow (first half, chapters 1-8).
Discussion takes place on Feb 17, 7pm CET, via Zoom. Doesn’t matter if you’ve finished, as long as you bring an impression. Would love to see some new faces! 💫
@dielinke_muc Dieses PR-Gedöns ohne was an den Problemen zu ändern ist ein treffendes Beispiel für duct taping, für eine Art #Bullshit-Job, wie von #DavidGraeber beschrieben: "there was one man [...] whose entire job it was to apologize for the fact that the carpenter hadn't come. [...] there didn't seem any obvious reason the school couldn't get rid of the position and use the money to hire another carpenter, in which case his job would not be needed anyway".
La verdad última oculta del mundo
Afuera ha estado nevando los últimos días y el bosque está forrado de nieve. Me resulta un tanto difícil tratar de describir el inicio de año sin sentir cierto grado de desesperanza. A escala global, nuestras realidades materiales e intelectuales, ocio incluído, parecieran estar intencionalmente diseñadas para producir en nosotros precisamente eso: desesperanza. Por ello, creo que, en tiempos como el nuestro, actos mínimos como mantener la cabeza erguida o darnos una palabra de […]https://migrante.blog/2026/01/08/la-verdad-ultima-oculta-del-mundo/
@contreattaque Ho ho Tadjmaat le nom des conseils de décision dans les villages Kabyles. Une structure traditionnelle de décision anarchiste 😊 #DavidGraeber
Bienvenue à Zaïd!
“#TheDawnOfEverything”: #DavidWengrow & the Late #DavidGraeber On a New #HistoryOfHumanity -
2021
Autonomies: **David Graeber: Revolution in reverse**
https://autonomies.org/2025/12/david-graeber-revolution-in-reverse/
David Graeber is an anthropologist at Goldsmiths College, University of London. In his previous books, particularly Towards An Anthropological Theory of Value and Fragments of An Anarchist Anthropology, he has spelt out his view of the need for a link between radical politics and … Continue reading →
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