The politics of value

Posted by Kirsten Gibbs
Last updated 6th December 2022
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  • "The ultimate stakes of politics, ... is not the struggle to appropriate value; it is the struggle to establish what value is. 

    Similarly, the ultimate freedom is not to create or accumulate value, but the freedom to decide (collectively or individually) what makes life worth living. 

    In the end then, politics is about the meaning of life." David Graeber*

     

    When you start your own business, you get to decide what value is.  And as long as you can find enough people who agree with you, you can grow.

    That's how we small businesses change the world, without even realising it.

    Imagine what we could do if we did it on purpose!

     

    *from 'Toward an anthropological theory of value - the false coin of our own dreams.'

     

     

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