David Graeber and Rutger Bregman discuss the amazing explosion of bullshit jobs, where the political and economic goal of full employment has led to the greatest and most expensive welfare system of all time. Libertarians, like Milton Friedman and Charles Murray, have called for a negative income tax to fix the welfare state and reduce waste but it may also become the solution to the problem of technological unemployment. The parasitism of bullshit jobs only subtracts from GDP but don’t say this stuff out loud (office volume) because it’s taboo for the branded cattle and their Coke and Pepsi politics. That’s why they were served an orange swan Ronald McDonald with a fool Trump card to be Chauncey Gardner in Chief. “Smoothness and repetitive order, the attributes of teeth, enter into the very nature of the power structure.” ~ Marshall McLuhan (Culture Is Our Business) Comments have been disabled: “Both left-and right-wing ideologies, in any case, are now so rigid that new ideas make little impression on their adherents. The faithful, having sealed themselves off from arguments and events that might call their own convictions into question, no longer attempt to engage their adversaries in debate. Their reading consists for the most part of works written from a point of view identical with their own. Instead of engaging unfamiliar arguments, they are content to classify them as either orthodox or heretical. The exposure of ideological deviation, on both sides, absorbs energies that might better be invested in self-criticism, the waning capacity for which is the surest sign of a moribund intellectual tradition.” (Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, 1996) https://newrepublic.com/article/10305… Links: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/0… https://www.amazon.com/David-Graeber/… https://singlemotherguide.com/federal… http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/… https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/09/0… https://thinkprogress.org/the-dangers… https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/… http://samoa.santafe.edu/media/workin… http://www.economist.com/node/14116121 http://www.berglas.org/Articles/Impor… http://www.aha.org/content/00-10/Fina… https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee… http://annals.org/aim/article/2546704… http://rooseveltinstitute.org/disgorg… http://evonomics.com/why-capitalism-c… http://time.com/4327419/american-capi… https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/19/fed-e… http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/r… http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sle…