David Graeber
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People who write good books, songs and stuff
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Self-described anarchist anthropologist who had a very good idea, wrote a short article in Strike! magazine about it that went viral and then turned it into a slightly disappointing book called Bullshit Jobs: A Theory.
Has written two much better books: Debt: The First 5,000 Years and The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Rest in peace
David Graeber died unexpectedly in Venice in 2020. The JC doesn’t subscribe wholesale to Graeber’s total theory and nor his general political outlook, but he was still a formidable intellect and a fabulous contrarian to boot, and we laud the spot-on insight that propels Bullshit Jobs: A Theory all the same, and the brio with which Mr. Graeber articulated it. We also think everyone in the financial markets should read Debt: The First 5,000 Years. The world is a far less interesting place without David Graeber in it. Well played, sir.