David Rolfe Graeber (/ˈɡreɪbər/; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Bullshit Jobs (2018), and The Dawn of Everything (2021), and his leading role in the Occupy movement, earned him recognition as one of the foremost anthropologists and left-wing thinkers of his time.

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    Turns out you can get stuff done without a huge mega corp or government robbing everyone to pay themselves and justify it as being for everyone’s own good. Just listen to the absurdity of the argument that you need a state: “Hey, I’m going to forcibly take 30% of everything you produce, but don’t worry, after I pay myself and my staff, I’ll build you a poorly maintained road and send someone to the moon. You’d like that wouldn’t you?”