David Rolfe Graeber (/ˈɡreɪbər/; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Bullshit Jobs (2018), and The Dawn of Everything (2021), and his leading role in the Occupy movement, earned him recognition as one of the foremost anthropologists and left-wing thinkers of his time.

  • frezik@midwest.social
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    4 months ago

    Syndicalisim solves it by reducing hours once everyone is in a co-op. I say it’s a question for capitalism because they could just do that right now, there’s some good arguments that they could, but don’t.

      • frezik@midwest.social
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        4 months ago

        how come no one seems to have successfully made a job where you only do those effective hours possible?

        That was the original question. It’s so not hard to find a syndicalist answer: when everyone is in a co-op, they all get together and decide that yeah, we don’t need to work as long. Job done. We haven’t done this yet because not everyone is organized into worker co-operatives.

        Capitalism, in contrast, has all sorts of roadblocks to making this happen.

        That’s why I handwave it away and turn it back on capitalism. It’s so easy to solve this in syndicalism once its conditions are met.