NoahFeb 22, 2023
The Mormon Church is being fined 5 million because it hid a 32 billion dollar investment fund. This was not accidental. The SEC proved that both the investment firm and church went to great lengths to knowingly hide these assets. For the folks playing along at home, that’s a fine of 0.016% on the investment. Imagine lying on your taxes and you hid an extra $100K offshore and the IRS said “No sweat, pay us $15.63.” If there are no other repercussions, that’s not a fine, that’s encouragement.
Show threadPhDog 🇮🇪Feb 22, 2023

@monkeyninja

David Graeber got an economist to admit that he was not aware of single case where a company was fined more than the profit it turned breaking the law. He summarized this as the government saying: "Do all the crime you want, but if we catch you, you have to give us a cut."

Show threadsxpertFeb 25, 2023
@dogfox @monkeyninja David Graeber is so dumb (like most rightwing pundits) he doesn't understand that "the government" is not an entity outside of society, but represents the society as a whole.
Show threadPhDog 🇮🇪Feb 25, 2023

@sxpert @monkeyninja

You might want to hit up Google, my guy.

Show threadsxpertFeb 25, 2023
@dogfox @monkeyninja he's a libertarian. nothing good come from them. they're the right-wing side of anarchists
Show threadAmine ChadlyFeb 25, 2023
@sxpert @monkeyninja @dogfox here is the first paragraphe of David Graeber's wikipedia page: 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) and Bullshit Jobs (2018), and his leading role in the Occupy movement, earned him recognition as one of the foremost anthropologists and left-wing thinkers of his time.
Show threadCurious Carrot
@chaami @sxpert @monkeyninja @dogfox
What can be defined as "left wing" in the US might not be categorised as such in somewhere else. Thus, I can see how one could see the same person under different lenses.
Feb 26, 2023 at 8:40amTusky
Show threadAmine ChadlyFeb 26, 2023
@curious_carrot @sxpert @monkeyninja @dogfox
I perfectly understand how one could see things through different lenses...
However the late David Graeber had to "exile himself" in Great Britain to teach because no US university would hire him due to his activism.
So I would think that whatever angle one wants to adopt, it takes quite a distortion to get him into that libertarian authoritarian trap 🤷