I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I will not read Graeber, because I have seen him run into Brad Delong and Henry Farrell, among others, and look very, very foolish. Here is just one of Delong's posts. Here's one of Farrell's. Apple was not founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other's garages.

Shoot. The. Messenger.

He's clearly flawed. The ideas in the book are worth reading. These are two different things.