Not Related! A Big-Braned Podcast The Economy Is Fake, the Jobs Are Fake, the Money Is Fake
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You can't roast people too badly for being "antiwork" when most jobs are simply useless nowadays. Surveys have shown that around half of people report either their job is totally useless, or that it's unclear to them if there is any social benefit to their work whatsoever. How has this happened? Why do people put so much effort into what is, in effect, play work.
We talk about David Graeber's article, book and concept of Bullshit Jobs, jobs so inane that even the people working them can't justify their existence. This brings up economic questions of hyper-production, the Consoomerist economy, post-scarcity and of course the alleged panacea of Universal Basic Income (UBI).
At the root of all of it is a public-private plastic economy based on easy and highly inflationary money, which strips people of savings and keeps people working like good wagies from cradle to the grade on jobs that exist just to keep the fake economy going. Comments on the psychological effects of Bitcoin and hard money included.
Readings and Links
Note that pay-walled academic articles may be obtained by feeding their URLs to sites like Sci-Hub.
- Very funny Antiwork R*dditor appears on Fox News
- The original Bullshit jobs article
- "Why It's Bad to Have High GDP"
Timecodes
00:00:00 The Fake Economy 00:01:09 Virgin antiwork Redditor vs. Chad Fox News 00:03:01 David Graeber's BS Jobs 00:06:08 An example of a BS job in the German military 00:08:09 How many people have fake jobs? 00:09:22 Is it just a government problem? 00:16:12 The Coofvid Lockdown and "Non-essential workers" 00:18:31 Defining Modern Wageslavery and on "Employees" and Time 00:22:52 The anatomy of BS job types 00:25:30 Goons and Cigarette Ads 00:27:09 Fake non-software jobs 00:30:25 This is NotRelated.xyz 00:31:38 LONG Donation reading 00:46:12 The culture of Wagecuckery and Hyperproduction 00:49:50 Graeber and the Wagie mindset 00:50:17 Universal Basic Income (UBI) and Post-Scarcity 00:53:18 UBI and the Wagie Uprising 00:56:28 The Inflation Run 00:59:09 Should I care about inflation? 01:00:06 Life in a deflationary economy 01:02:19 What are BS jobs in the inflationary economy? 01:04:38 Would Graeber agree? 01:06:01 Inflation as theft 01:07:07 Why high GDP is bad 01:09:36 The example of the Bitcoiner mindset 01:10:54 Will gold and Bitcoin destroy the economy? Yes. 01:13:38 Hard Money and Bullsh*t Jobs: The Endgame 01:15:09 Fake Anarchism and UBI 01:16:20 Comments on Left and Right Anarchism 01:18:18 Closing Notes, including *important* RSS updates!
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