David Graeber Institute on Nostr: "What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring ...
"What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial
form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field,
or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead
started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver?
.
We might be forced to conclude that the real business of
human life is not contributing toward something called the
economy but the fact that we are all, and have always been,
projects of mutual creation."
.
- David Graeber
Published at
2026-05-11 01:06:38 UTCEvent JSON
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