finktank finished reading The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to an aging lord at a crumbling estate situated …
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The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to an aging lord at a crumbling estate situated …
The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to an aging lord at a crumbling estate situated …
Imagination isn’t a luxury; it’s a vital resource and a powerful tool for our collective liberation. A world without prisons? …
Imagination isn’t a luxury; it’s a vital resource and a powerful tool for our collective liberation. A world without prisons? …
A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) …
A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) …
Didn't love this Graeber book. While I'm inclined to agree with the thrust of his arguments, I don't think his claims are quite accurate, and indeed empirical research questions their accuracy: www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/one-in-twenty-workers-are-in-useless-jobs-far-fewer-than-previously-thought
I think a more nuanced and less hyperbolic approach would make the argument feel more convincing and less baldly ideological.