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

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Read Graeber. Trust me. It's good. He's coming to it from a classical liberal perspective.

He wrote the highly amusing little piece, "Bullshit Jobs": http://www.economist.com/blogs/freee...bour-markets-0

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.