03 · Anthropology · Live

Graeber
Debt · Bullshit Jobs · Direct Democracy

Six lessons on debt as a tool of power, why most work is meaningless by design, and how ordinary people build direct democracy. Free, delivered by email.

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Course intro — free email course from The Kiwi Dialect

Six lessons on Graeber's big ideas — free. Enrol here.

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Lesson 1: Who was Graeber, and why does anthropology make you dangerous?

Anthropology, anarchism, and seeing the world differently.

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Lesson 2: Debt — the first 5,000 years and why you should never feel morally obligated to a bank

How debt was invented as a tool of domination long before capitalism.

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Lesson 3: Bullshit Jobs — why so much work under capitalism is meaningless by design

Why most work under capitalism is pointless by design.

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Lesson 4: The Utopia of Rules — why bureaucracy is a problem for the left, not just the right

How paperwork, means-testing, and administration humiliate and exhaust people.

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Lesson 5: The Dawn of Everything — what the deep past tells us about human freedom

What Occupy Wall Street and other movements actually built.

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Lesson 6: Synthesis — what Graeber's work means for thinking and acting in Aotearoa today

Debt, work, bureaucracy, and direct democracy through a New Zealand lens.

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