david on labor

via tweet [https://x.com/Graeber_social/status/1950284770732085452]:

David Graeber on social relations under capitalism and the labor theory of value. A clip worth watching.

notes/quotes from 2 min video clip:

1 min – the problem is.. they have this focus on production.. where most labor is not actually productive.. most labor is about nurturing things.. caregiving.. we need to think about what makes work actually valuable is it cares for other people.. it benefits people in a concrete way.. and nobody can really decide how that happens other than the people doing it..t

norton productivity law et al

david on left-to-own-devices ness et al

the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness

[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]

there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. for (blank)’s sake..

ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition

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