The Sunday Letters Podcast is the weekly audio newsletter on the meaning & purpose of daily work from work and business psychologist Larry Maguire and philosopher Dmitri Belikov. We explore how human beings may break free from tiresome means-to-an-end labour and take command of their own working lives. Topics include daily work, jobs and careers, self-employment, socialism, capitalism, economics, slavery, colonialism, and society & culture. Content follows the written newsletter, which goes ...
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010 Money Part 3: What Is Modern Monetary Theory MMT?
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1:25:34Welcome to this week’s edition of the podcast. If you like what we’re doing, consider becoming a paid subscriber. If you’d rather not, you can offer a one-off tip here, or get yourself some merch here. Many thanks for your support! Support Sunday Letters In this latest episode of Sunday Letters, we're in conversation with PhD, writer at bondeconomi…
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009 A US Air Force Pilot on The Meaning of Work
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1:01:02Welcome to this week’s edition of the podcast. If you like what we’re doing, consider becoming a paid subscriber. If you’d rather not, you can offer a one-off tip here, or get yourself some merch here. Many thanks for your support! In this episode of The Sunday Letters Podcast, I’m in conversation with former US Air Force pilot and current lecturer…
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the podcast. If you like what we’re doing, consider becoming a paid subscriber. If you’d rather not, you can offer a one-off tip here, or get yourself some merch here. Many thanks for your support! In our latest episode of The Sunday Letters Journal podcast, and I delved into the complex topic of the morality of mo…
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the podcast. If you like what we’re doing, consider becoming a paid subscriber. If you’d rather not, you can offer a one-off tip here, or get yourself some merch here. Many thanks for your support! Welcome to Sunday Letters. I’m Larry Maguire, your host, and with me today is my friend and philosopher, Dimitri Belko…
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the podcast. If you like what we’re doing, consider becoming a paid subscriber. If you’d rather not, you can offer a one-off tip here, or get yourself some merch here. Many thanks for your support! Mark Twain referred to it as the Gilded Age. Given his wit and occasional cynicism, I’m not sure that was entirely in …
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005 Universal Basic Income & The End of Work
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57:59Welcome to this week’s edition of the podcast. If you like what we’re doing, consider becoming a paid subscriber. If you’d rather not, you can offer a one-off tip here, or get yourself some merch here. Many thanks for your support! With the progression of artificial intelligence, many voices are heralding the end of work as we know it. It is not ju…
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004 On Bullshit Jobs: David Graeber's Theory of Work
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55:55Welcome to this week’s edition of the podcast. If you like what we’re doing, consider becoming a paid subscriber. If you’d rather not, you can offer a one-off tip here, or get yourself some merch here. Many thanks for your support! In this week’s episode, we’re discussing David Graeber, anthropologist and activist, who introduced the concept of "bu…
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003 To Compete or Cooperate: Which Works Best For Humanity?
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58:49Welcome to this week’s edition of the podcast. If you like what we’re doing, consider becoming a paid subscriber. If you’d rather not, you can offer a one-off tip here, or get yourself some merch here. Many thanks for your support! In this week’s episode, and I discuss one of the fundamental dichotomies of human behaviour: cooperation versus compet…
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the podcast. If you like what we’re doing, consider becoming a paid subscriber. If you’d rather not, you can offer a one-off tip here. Many thanks for your support! On Tuesday, I wrote about the false promise of the future of work. I highlighted, amongst other things, that education helps school us towards direct p…
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001 The Sunday Letters Podcast: Refreshed
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40:11Welcome to this week’s edition of the podcast. If you like what we’re doing, consider becoming a paid subscriber. If you’d rather not, you can offer a one-off tip here. Many thanks for your support! I mentioned on Monday that change was afoot; well, here’s the story… Welcome to the relaunch of the Sunday Letters Podcast. It has been some time since…
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the podcast. If you like what we’re doing, consider becoming a paid subscriber. If you’d rather not, you can offer a one-off tip here. Many thanks for your support! You might be wondering where the several hundred older episodes of Sunday Letters have disappeared. Well, I have drafted them all. I did so primarily b…
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