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It feels like we're all under the yoke of debt, beholden to bankers who can buy off politicians and sue their way to success. Schaefer's work offers a powerful reminder that the financial system is ultimately flimsy and fake. It's a massive structure but one built literally from paper that can quickly succumb to fire and other natural forces.
Jan 26, 2024
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πΈIdc about investing but those fuckers always eat shit so hard, itβs like watching the guy from the lorax fall down a flight of stairs
Jan 27, 2024
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Changed my perspective on so much--namely money and history. It's shocking how so much of the mainstream story of where money came from is false conjecture. For instance, we are told that societies start out bartering for goods and then develop money to make trade easier... but actually Graeber shows in no society has bartering ever predated coinage. The actual ways societies have historically dealt with exchange of goods and services are diverse and often more humanistic. Could it be that the mainstream narrative is merely justification for the inevitability of the free market? π€ Definitely want to re-read because there's lots more too
Mar 12, 2025
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π°like hoooooly shit, the various things people like peter thiel, curtis yarvin, and their circles (including musk) say sound so insane because they are fucking insane people. but I feel like I sound insane when I'm like no like they've publically said they want corporate cities ran by billionaires where we're all their slaves and the people who aren't good enough workers will be turned into bio fuel (and the people behind these ideas are backing/heavily influencing people in office and creating surveillance companies and brain chips and shit but that's a whole other post)
Jul 12, 2025
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