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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Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:57

@RulesSelmer @Scott27587701 if making good products people want & want to keep is a bad business model, then maybe there’s something wrong with business. Important research isn’t much pursued by private corporations anyway.

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Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:55

@thewordthatcuts @mbongeni7 @NombsNtshali2 @sade_without_h @mihlalii_n once nylon had become standard, of course, they started decreasing the quality and have done so ever since. 3/

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Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:54

@thewordthatcuts @mbongeni7 @NombsNtshali2 @sade_without_h @mihlalii_n one of her friends was asked to volunteer to wear just-invented nylon stockings every day and wash them every night until they ripped. The first pair were perfect after 4 months so they kept introducing weaker ones until they found one just slightly better than silk 2/

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Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:52

@thewordthatcuts @mbongeni7 @NombsNtshali2 @sade_without_h @mihlalii_n wow this sounds important! Yes, my mother was working in a garment factory in the late ’30s & actually heard about testing for this going on in a different factory 1/

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Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:51

RT @thewordthatcuts: @mbongeni7 @davidgraeber @NombsNtshali2 @sade_without_h @mihlalii_n Bernard London wrote a paper during the Great Depr…

Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:50

just got this by randomly searching “planned obsolescence”. Now think of all the coltan, the fresh water, etc, that goes into creating a laptop. Think of all the people who will ultimately die so they can sell you 5 laptops instead of just one. https://t.co/dnUbvlsGX2

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Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:48

RT @mbongeni7: @NombsNtshali2 @sade_without_h @mihlalii_n Tha thing called planned obsolescence, where things like electronics cars are mAd…

Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:47

RT @buymeonce: What is planned obsolescence? You might see us referencing it frequently, but we wrote a refresher on what it is and where i…

Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:47

RT @yugopnik: The Phoebus Business cartel was founded in 1925. They limited the lifespam of lightbulbs from 2500 to 1000 hours – and were a…

Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:45

RT @AgathoniaMedia: Now, you may argue that the demand to #work less on a social level means within our #system that people cannot survive…

Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:45

RT @AgathoniaMedia: Strangely, if we’d run into a person with a megaphone on the marketplace promising us #work for the rest of our lives,…

Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:45

RT @AgathoniaMedia: Graeber proposes 3 measures he suggest are really “common sense”: 1. eliminate bullshit jobs, 2. stopping batshit const…

Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:45

RT @AgathoniaMedia: Graeber claims the obvious which turns out not to be that obvious: “Work has become our badge of moral citizenship.” If…

Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:40

@julie_neuhouser @aubergineaura Obviously. Forbidding the other kinds is what I was referring to.

Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:37

RT @AgathoniaMedia: @davidgraeber invites us to rethink our society’s “addiction to #work”,though “much of this work is entirely pointless.…

Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:35

@drmattpalm I assume you know they’re using that as an excuse to create 5x as many and thus meant it as some kind of insider joke

Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:12

RT @medialens: ‘To have extradition decided on the merits of one indictment when the accused actually faces another is an outrage. To chang…

Wed 15 Jul 2020 07:56

RT @NicolaCutcher: Great little listen from @davidgraeber. Top policy prescription for a green recovery: Ban planned obsolescence (poorly…

Wed 15 Jul 2020 01:40

@JBujes It’s a 3-4 minute spiel for a mass audience intended to make a political impact. There are a very limited of number of points you can make in 3-4 minutes.

Wed 15 Jul 2020 01:38

@aubergineaura @julie_neuhouser yeah imagine trying to enforce that: same-sex orgies only. You’d have to go back to the equivalent of having boys and girls entrances to schools or somesuch.

Tue 14 Jul 2020 21:44

RT @JaskuMariusz: The Tory government latest go out/stay safe approach to economy is like they took David Graeber’s “Bullshit Job” very ser…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 21:30

RT @every1plslikeme: @davidgraeber I think feeling like everyone has to work 24/7 also stems from a rather cruel “I have to suffer, so shou…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 21:27

RT @WaywardWinifred: More than 20 million people face eviction by the end of September as GOP threatens to cut aid: study https://t.co/0PMX…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 21:26

RT @StrikeDebt: Out of work? Find something new! Guillotine manufacturing, repair, and maintenance is a growing field with many exciting o…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 21:25

RT @LindseyBoylan: House Democrats don’t understand that student debt is a huge economic crisis. There’s a lot they don’t get. https://t.co…