davidgraeber

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by davidgraeber 7y ago
Anthropologists are not qualified to decide whose job is bullshit and neither is anyone else. That's the whole premise of the book. Anthropologists however are trained to listen to what people say about their own lives and understandin
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by davidgraeber 8y ago
There was a garbled sentence in the first edition that I didn't catch in proofreading but was instantly removed as soon as anyone noticed it. DeLong has seized on this and endlessly reproduced it, quite possible hundreds of times, pret
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by davidgraeber 8y ago
Yes, DeLong, we all know there was a garbled sentence in the first edition that was instantly removed the moment anyone noticed it. The only reason anyone has heard of it since is because you have reproduced it probably 457 times in a your
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by davidgraeber 8y ago
Thanks much for saying. I mean it's understandable. It wouldn't normally occur to anyone that someone that reputable - professor at Berkeley, former Treasury official - would also be an internet troll. In fact he might be the only
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by davidgraeber 8y ago
Why are people such suckers? Brad DeLong is a self-proclaimed troll and a proven serial liar. He for some unfathomable reason decided to go gunning for me despite my never having met him or interacted with him in my life; he started by spew
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by davidgraeber 14y ago
The point that the morality of debt is based on the fact that it's a promise already appears on page 4. Similarly the very last paragraph, begins "What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupte
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by davidgraeber 16y ago
Yes, the house rental trick was big in the European middle ages: sometimes the lender would just pretend to "buy" the borrowers' house, and charge him "rent" for his own house until he "buys" it back. Still, the remarkable thing from t
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by davidgraeber 16y ago
Yes, the house rental trick was big in the European middle ages: sometimes the lender would just pretend to "buy" the borrowers' house, and charge him "rent" for his own house until he "buys" it back. Still, the remarkable thing from t