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Kind of see a potentially complimentary angle to this with the idea of “interpretative labor” by Graeber: “Much of the everyday business of social life, in fact, consists in trying to decipher others’ motives and perceptions. Let us call this ‘interpretive labor.’ …
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Dunning-Kruger asymmetry. The less confident, more doubtful must always work to understand the ones more sure of themselves. Just like people living in cities often pay extra taxes. twitter.com/JillFilipovic/…
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I don't even think that arg is graeber's from the beginning, it's something he got from feminists - the idea that various power asymmetries lead to different levels of understanding/doubt came out of intersectional feminists in particular
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Graeber said his whole "bullshit jobs" schtick came to him from meeting too many people embarrassed of their jobs at cocktail parties. However, his whole lefty milieu talks about labor because Marx's whole theory of value revolves around labeling and accounting for it.