#jamessuzman — Public Fediverse posts
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James Suzman, Travailler
Un des propos qui m'a le plus marqué est le constat de la perte de confiance de la population mondiale en la science du fait de la perte de confiance en l'économie (n'appartenant pourtant pas au champ scientifique stricto sensu) parce qu'elle n'avait pas prédit la crise de 2008.
Un livre brillant pour prendre des décisions importantes. Courrez ! -
On the #EzraKlein show entitled “Why Do We Work So Damn Much?”, Klein discusses the work of anthropologist #JamesSuzman, who argues that overcoming scarcity does not necessarily make us happy, because happiness is tied to wants, not needs.
This is a great example of how literature is often decades ahead of academia, because it is the central thesis of #UrsulaLeGuin ’s 1974 #ScienceFiction / #Utopian novel #TheDispossessed. -
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Just yesterday we heard a great 20 minute interview with an #anthropoligist #JamesSuzman author of (from the website) ‘Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time’. He discusses how work as we know it is really a modern concept that didn’t exist until recently, the #capitalist global #economy and how it forces people into unfulfilling work, why we may need to look to our #hunterGatherer past to rebuild and reshape our economies post-coronavirus, why the…(2/3)
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