Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Sun 30 Aug 2020 01:46

RT @cballison421: @4imix @Memphisizzle @davidgraeber @vedalkensamurai: “Bezos net worth increased 74b so far in 2020. That’s 307m per day,…

Sun 30 Aug 2020 01:45

@davidwengrow @SaltleyGates oh fine, then play yourself. That means I’ll have to do it too. Only movie I was ever in was an art film where I did a long monologue as a father giving bad advice but I don’t think it was ever released.

Sun 30 Aug 2020 01:26

RT @MrInnesSmith: @davidgraeber @bellacaledonia I was in the book trade 20 years ago and we all knew Amazon’s game back then – it was for a…

Sun 30 Aug 2020 00:59

RT @Itmechr3: Honestly looting is the real test case of whether you’re an anti-capitalist or not and as expected like 99% of the so called…

Sat 29 Aug 2020 22:45

RT @SecularAnimist: @davidgraeber Which suggests the emergence of a kind of dark age where no one can afford to do creative labour because…

Sat 29 Aug 2020 22:43

RT @4imix: @Memphisizzle @davidgraeber Someone’s already on that 🤣 https://t.co/8TMHsE5cL2

Sat 29 Aug 2020 20:48

RT @OccupyLondon: The courage of people in #Belarus is that of people with nothing left to lose. The brutal #Lukashenko has his police forc…

Sat 29 Aug 2020 18:38

@Ksquared56 @davidwengrow @sm9eb there is absolutely no reason to assume all human social development worldwide follows the same pattern, and a great deal of evidence that it does not

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Sat 29 Aug 2020 18:27

RT @chesnavich: @davidgraeber Capitalism has brought art to a crisis point. I’m finishing writing a book about how this is expressed in ci…

Sat 29 Aug 2020 17:39

RT @davidwengrow: In the 1920s anthropologist AM Hocart proposed kingship began as a ritual institution and “the first kings were dead king…

Sat 29 Aug 2020 17:38

@zug_01 god why are Marxist ideologues SO BORING? Yes, I would like to abolish the wage system too. That doesn’t mean it’s the only thing you’re ever allowed to talk about. Totalitarian much>?

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Sat 29 Aug 2020 17:37

@exyz_Jeremy yeah, they make the publishers sell at prices so cheap that the publishers can just pay their own overhead and there’s nothing left for the authors

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Sat 29 Aug 2020 15:25

RT @BichlerNitzan: An interesting thread from @DTCochrane on his #capitalaspower study of De Beers and beyond. His research maps quality in…

Sat 29 Aug 2020 14:01

@PraxisCast @frankthetank622 What specific argument about naked power are you objecting to?

Sat 29 Aug 2020 13:58

@Dutchography Are you saying that’s what he actually thinks, or that’s his propaganda line?

Sat 29 Aug 2020 13:54

@PraxisCast @frankthetank622 You’re saying he’s making money to get power. But then you’re saying he’s wielding power to make money. That sounds like a bit of a circular argument. How does it differ from my saying his making money is itself an exertion of power as an end in itself?

Sat 29 Aug 2020 13:46

@_woIfgang @frankthetank622 Slave how? Psychologically? He fears some phantom future competitor?

Sat 29 Aug 2020 13:40

RT @davidgraeber: @frankthetank622 Can’t the Fed just print him a trillion and give it to him so he’ll go away? I mean it wouldn’t make any…

Sat 29 Aug 2020 13:39

@frankthetank622 Can’t the Fed just print him a trillion and give it to him so he’ll go away? I mean it wouldn’t make any difference if he didn’t spend it. If that wouldn’t satisfy him, doesn’t it show it’s his power to take the money from authors that’s really driving him?

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Sat 29 Aug 2020 13:36

It’s like stealing candy from babies and not even eating it. In practice, we seem to have created a world so perverse that denying creative people any benefit from their creation is an end in itself. You do it so as to revel in your very power to do so.

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Sat 29 Aug 2020 13:33

And the amazing thing is that almost all the money that would be going to authors, who mostly could actually use it, just goes to Bezos personally, so he can say “look! I have another 10 billion! Oh! And another 10 billion!” He doesn’t even use it.

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Sat 29 Aug 2020 13:30

According to pretty much every publisher I know Jeff Bezos is personally responsible for the destruction of the book industry. They can no longer pay most authors anything as it all gets squeezed by Amazon.

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