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Ethics in Bricks"In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.”
- David Graeber
- David Graeber
Jackie Gardina@ethicsinbricks it is analogous to budgets as value statements. And it is a sad statement about what we value. Pre-school teachers and home healthcare aides are among the lowest paid in our society and they care for the most vulnerable among us.
CaseyTheOkayest@jackiegardina @ethicsinbricks It’s no accident that these low paying but essential jobs in education, child care, and health care were/are predominantly performed by women.
Patriarchy tells women what jobs they should and can have and then puts little to no value in them.
Patriarchy tells women what jobs they should and can have and then puts little to no value in them.
bondolo@ethicsinbricks Paying people based on their proximity to the money is totally rational!
Shield Maiden@ethicsinbricks Ahh, David Graeber, hugely missed, gone too soon.
SamJo@ethicsinbricks
Not only "seems" a general rule, it's been confirmed by hundreds of studies - at least as it means "work benefits other people's well-being directly" vs. "benefits other people wealth"
Not only "seems" a general rule, it's been confirmed by hundreds of studies - at least as it means "work benefits other people's well-being directly" vs. "benefits other people wealth"
iris ✿ sandwalker@ethicsinbricks #DavidGraeber was a great thinker and anthropologist and left this world waaay too early :,| http://irisherself.com/blog/work-or-not-to
HeavenlyPossum (@[email protected])
“The police, then, are essentially just bureaucrats with weapons. Their main role in society is to bring the threat of physical force—even, death—into situations where it would never have been otherwise invoked…In a very real sense, the ‘middle class’ is not an economic category, it's a social one. To be middle class is to feel that the fundamental institutional structures of society are, or should be, on your side. If you see a policeman and you feel more safe, rather than less, then you can be pretty sure you're middle class. Yet for the first time since polling began, most Americans in 2012 indicated they do not, in fact, consider themselves middle class.” David Graeber https://www.gawker.com/ferguson-and-the-criminalization-of-american-life-1692392051 #PossumQuotes
Stephan Ischovits@ethicsinbricks
So sad but so true
So sad but so true
wkrop@ethicsinbricks I was going to say: "Ooooh!, I read this book by Graeber and he said exactly the same thing!".
Then I noticed that you cited Graeber.
hedwyg@ethicsinbricks Well, only women do that sort of work, and women's work isn't valuable. 🙄 😑
Kati@ethicsinbricks That is so true!
sara peattie@ethicsinbricks besides the other comments, all no doubt true, maybe partly people may enjoy doing work which they can see benefits other people
Mx. Alba 
@ethicsinbricks There's also the effect that the more unethical the work is, the more you must pay people to be willling to do it.
Celia@ethicsinbricks I’m a retired teacher in America and this is spot on
Alexander Mueller@ethicsinbricks big DG fan here
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