<story><title>After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)</title><url>https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-after-the-pandemic-we-can-t-go-back-to-sleep</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p2t2p</author><text>&amp;gt; Should we all get a patch of land and grow food for ourselves?&lt;p&gt;A lot of those types would loooove to see lots of people to go back to subsistence.&lt;p&gt;That is a lot of people but not them, they are way too smart for that and they’ll reluctangly agree to take the job of guiding lights for all those that went back to subsistence.</text></item><item><author>fileeditview</author><text>I agree. He writes about how we lived in a dream but for me what he writes is also a dream of some sort.&lt;p&gt;Just stop doing our dream-work.. and then? What do I do to provide for my family? Should we all get a patch of land and grow food for ourselves? This idea does not seem realistic or scalable.&lt;p&gt;But maybe I am just misunderstanding the essay or my thoughts are just not deep enough.</text></item><item><author>soared</author><text>Meh. I’ve seen a lot of these short essays about how after the pandemic we either should not or simply will not return to the status quo. It doesn’t really do anything to say “the economy doesn’t work” in 5 paragraphs and then say nothing else.&lt;p&gt;Yes, lots of poor people are getting screwed. Some jobs don’t pay well despite the higher moral standing of directly assisting others. The environment looks pretty bad. But you can’t just say “rich people bad. New economy plz”.&lt;p&gt;This essay is basically r&amp;#x2F;im14andthisisdeep</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phone8675309</author><text>Reminds me a lot of the meme of the intellectual advocating for communism thinking that they’ll have a nice cultural advisor job instead of either being shot by the thugs that seize power or forced to work 60 hours a week on a collective farm or in a shoe factory.</text></comment>
<story><title>After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)</title><url>https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-after-the-pandemic-we-can-t-go-back-to-sleep</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p2t2p</author><text>&amp;gt; Should we all get a patch of land and grow food for ourselves?&lt;p&gt;A lot of those types would loooove to see lots of people to go back to subsistence.&lt;p&gt;That is a lot of people but not them, they are way too smart for that and they’ll reluctangly agree to take the job of guiding lights for all those that went back to subsistence.</text></item><item><author>fileeditview</author><text>I agree. He writes about how we lived in a dream but for me what he writes is also a dream of some sort.&lt;p&gt;Just stop doing our dream-work.. and then? What do I do to provide for my family? Should we all get a patch of land and grow food for ourselves? This idea does not seem realistic or scalable.&lt;p&gt;But maybe I am just misunderstanding the essay or my thoughts are just not deep enough.</text></item><item><author>soared</author><text>Meh. I’ve seen a lot of these short essays about how after the pandemic we either should not or simply will not return to the status quo. It doesn’t really do anything to say “the economy doesn’t work” in 5 paragraphs and then say nothing else.&lt;p&gt;Yes, lots of poor people are getting screwed. Some jobs don’t pay well despite the higher moral standing of directly assisting others. The environment looks pretty bad. But you can’t just say “rich people bad. New economy plz”.&lt;p&gt;This essay is basically r&amp;#x2F;im14andthisisdeep</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpmisms</author><text>I mean, everyone should know how. Subsistence is incredibly rewarding.</text></comment>