It would be great if Graeber’s commentary in “Bullshit Jobs” was about how the jobs people and communities want don’t exist, rather than a libertarian diatribe about how public employment always metastasizes into bullshit.
“Unless we are open to new approaches to university finance, we will remain trapped by the austere logics that are destroying our cherished institutions.
Unless we are willing to act imaginatively and fearlessly to save our universities now, we will soon find that there is nothing left to save.”
The vandalism disguised as “budget responsibility” continues.
“When the city borrows money for bridges, schools, or transit, it pays massive interest fees to private banks on Wall Street. This ‘leak’ is a primary cause of local austerity.”
The following speech was read on March 28th at a progressive New York City synagogue, a guest sermon by one of the congregants.
"Responsibility is no longer equated with deference to market signals or pre-emptive limitation. It lies instead in the ongoing capacity to specify, coordinate, and adjust—to carry projects forward over time without breakdown."
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Tax an Spend is old news.
Credit expansion and interest capture is the hot new thing.
Your big Wall Street bank hates this.
We love it.
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And I will say that, though there are no strategic guarantees, to reject this Darwinian view of human history is also to reject fascist storytelling and forced amnesia, which the left so often turns on itself without realizing.
So glad we have an experiment to tell us that we can raise the minimum wage. What a relief. @moneyontheleft.bsky.social has monetary experiments ready to go and many scales.
We speak with Ely Fair, who studies structural inequality and poverty in urban geographies from a heterodox perspective.
“The crux of the problem is that every year millions of Seattle’s tax dollars line the coffers of capitalists outside the city.”
Cohosts Natalie Smith and Will Beaman discuss mutual aid, highlighting the potentials of its often neglected monetary and linguistic dimensions.
In this classic episode from our archive, Will Beaman and Thomas Chaplin join Scott Ferguson to discuss Bo Burnham’s Inside (2021).
Will Beaman, Natalie Tabb & Maxximilian Seijo develop a theory of media accountability in which heterogeneous institutions and social infrastructures are variously implicated as political participants.
“Money is … treated either as a false identity or as a site of identity’s failure.
I want to start from a different premise.”
We recount the events surrounding Elon Musk & the DOGE boys’ unconstitutional takeover of the Treasury’s Bureau of Fiscal Service, while explicating the right-wing theory of the “unitary executive” that underwrites such actions.
