David Graeber wrote this beautiful little essay shortly before he died. It reads like a final wish. "When this crisis is over, let's promise to create an economy that lets us actually take care of the people who are taking care of us." jacobinmag.com/2021/03/david-…
"The actual reality of human life is that we are a collection of fragile beings taking care of one another, and that those who do the lion’s share of this care work that keeps us alive are overtaxed, underpaid, and daily humiliated..."
"Why don’t we stop treating it as normal that the more obviously one’s work benefits others, the less one is likely to be paid for it; or insisting that financial markets are the best way to direct investment even as they are propelling us to destroy most life on Earth?"
"Why not instead, once the current emergency is declared over, actually remember what we’ve learned: that if 'the economy' means anything, it is the way we provide each other with what we need to be alive, in every sense of the term."
"What we call 'the market' is largely just a way of tabulating the aggregate desires of rich people, most of whom are at least slightly pathological, and the most powerful of whom are already completing the designs for the bunkers they plan to escape to."
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