The more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

—David Graeber

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About David Graeber

Portrait of David Graeber

David Rolfe Graeber (; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist social and political activist. His influential work in social and economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), The Utopia of Rules (2015), Bullshit Jobs (2018), and The Dawn of...

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Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone's blueprint?

—David Graeber

More quotations tagged with “charity”

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

—William Hutton

Charity begins at home.

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.

—Thomas Browne

In charity there is no excess.

—Francis Bacon

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

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