/lit/ - Literature

Bullshit jobs are over?

>>20728082
>make sure you put a heckin’ cuss word in the title!

based Graeber

but don't leftists always say they want full employment which would naturally entail a lot of make work non-productive jobs, so what exactly is his problem? does he want some ceo to lay off all the low productivity workers to increase efficiency? he'd probably whine about capitalism if that happened.

>Born in New York to a working-class Jewish family, Graeber studied at Purchase College and the University of Chicago, where he conducted ethnographic research in Madagascar under Marshall Sahlins and obtained his doctorate in 1996.

>>20728452
>Graeber's parents, who were in their forties when Graeber was born, were self-taught working-class intellectuals in New York.[9] Graeber's mother, Ruth Rubinstein, had been a garment worker, and played the lead role in the 1930s musical comedy revue Pins & Needles, staged by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.[9][10] Graeber's father Kenneth, who was affiliated with the Youth Communist League in college, participated in the Spanish Revolution in Barcelona and fought in the Spanish Civil War.[11] He later worked as a plate stripper on offset printers.[9] Both his parents were Jewish.[12] Graeber grew up in Penn South, a union-sponsored housing cooperative in Chelsea, Manhattan,[13] described by Business Week magazine as "suffused with radical politics."[9]
>working class

>>20728082
This guy fundamentally misunderstands business.

>>20728457
>parents are union activists
>writes about how there are useless jobs everywhere
he should have tried introspection

>>20728452
>>20728457
Mindless antisemitism is dumb and makes your position look irrational.
It’s perfectly understandable to hate Jews like Soros, Netanyahu or Zucc but Jews like Graeber, Postman and Finkelstein are based nonfiction authors that go against the grain

>>20728487
>hate Jews like Soros, Netanyahu or Zucc
All happen to be capitalists/right wingers. How interesting that you chose those specific ones.

>>20728487
>Netanyahu
why hate Bibi?
Dumb evangelical Goyim are the ones who can't wait to circumcise their sons and send them to die in Iran.

>>20728487
>DUDE MY LEFTISTS JEWS ARE ACTUALLY GOOD AND BASED LMAOOOOOO

>>20728457
The fact you think working class people can't have hobbies or get an education is a sadder state than whatever point you're trying to make here.

>>20728517
He grew up upper-middle class and only LARPs as a working-class intellectual to maintain his anarkiddie academic grift. Woe is me, I was denied tenure so I must self-proclaim academic exile because universities won’t take seriously anarkiddie beliefs held by a 30+ year old man who went to Purchase College and University of Chicago

>>20728507
Yes, Graeber calls out debt slavery in Debt: The First 5000 years, Finkelstein exposes the Holocaust industry in his book of the same name and Postman trashes the mind numbing effects of television in Amusing Ourselves to Death.
All much more intellectually honest than their neocon counterparts and they got shit for it from other Jews

>>20728527
>grew up upper middle class
Everything in that greentext talks about how his family's life was pretty much bankrolled by a union. It's not impossible that he's larping (i don't pay really know much about graeber) but nothing in that says "upper-middle class" to me

>>20728552
The fact that you do not know shit about Penn South shows that you just discovered leftism this year, hence why you are defending some anarkiddie grifter.

i hate grifter academics. has this guy published anything serious ever?

Why are nu-anarchists so juvenile?

>>20728575
oh wow just reading about penn south it sounds like an awful corrupt project, was the ilgwu mobbed up or what?

>>20728575
Was penn south upper middle class when he was living there?

>>20728487
I'm about to tell you a real story.

I once worked with a jew who was running his own company, and by that I mean he had a really shitty idea and spent all of his money on the materials to make it, and had a website put up on WordPress.

This was his idea for a Kickstarter campaign video:

The product would be sold to schools, so we enter on new York and skip between different families, each of a different race (except no jews, of course) who were all discussing how the principal of their local school was such an evil man for not buying this safety product for their children. We would then see each family, a Chinese, a black, a Mexican, a white family, etc. (No jews though, lmao) walking down their new York apartment steps to go and see the principal, together, as a collective force, to encourage him to purchase the product.

Anyway, when they get there the teacher is actually Hitler. Literally Hitler. And then the multi-ethnic families all beat him to death with the product.

I am not making this up.

>>20728604
Yeah, a bunch of upper middle class unionists (mostly managerial positions) filed a lawsuit (which means his mommy and daddy were part of it) to kick out the actual working class living there because Chelsea was already developing into pristine real estate at the time and then basically turned it into a high rise condo with very strict rules with an income threshold

>>20728627
That's pretty fucked up

>>20728627
Wow almost like the leftists have been a too for power all along

we need advanced robotics to usher in a golden age of technological slaves so the meatbags can drink margaritas and masturbate all day

>>20728747
We need artificial wombs so that Capital can finally be emancipated and the human nigger is suffered by this world no longer.

>>20728451
>but don't leftists always say they want full employment
No? Full employment is accepting the basic premises of capitalism. Right wing liberals (e.g. Milton Friedman) will claim that in a free market without any regulation full employment naturally occurs and no one who wants a job won't have one, left wing liberals (e.g. Keynes) claim regulation is necessary to get there and a free market doesn't fully utilize available resources. Future to the left you'll get claims employment itself is oppressive and no one should be employed for anyone else and the lights will still stay on. Graeber is an anarcho-kiddie

>which would naturally entail a lot of make work non-productive jobs
You could say that's already happening in a large quantity, it's just not distributed fairly