
BS Jobs w/ David Graeber (2018)
Srsly Wrong
Are You Working Harder Than You Want to Work?
There is an idea that everybody should be working harder than they want to work, preferably for someone they don't like very much. If you're not working, then you're bad. You're useless. That's what I was talking about. The Latin word produceeric means to shove out, sort of like giving birth. Most work consists of making stuff but also maintaining it. It's this very male-centric notion of what work is.
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