Questions tagged [david-graeber]
David Rolfe Graeber was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist.
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Do 37% of people in the UK believe that their job either makes no difference or makes the world worse?
According to David Graeber:
They discovered that people in the UK, 37% agreed that if their job didn't exist either it would make no difference whatsoever or the world might be a slightly better ...
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Did "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife" originally refer not to sex but to housework?
In "Debt: The First 5000 Years" by David Graeber, there is a claim on page 129:
Even in the Bible, the admonition in the Ten Commandments not to "covet thy neighbor's wife" clearly referred not to ...
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Was money invented because barter was deemed impractical?
When the history of money is described, very often the claim is made that people invented money because barter was impractical: a quick Google Search lists many places where this claim is made, e.g. (...
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