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...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productiv...

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

It is the privilege of the richTo waste the time of the poorTo water with tears in secretA tree that...

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Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage th...

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Thomas SowellBasic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire li...

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...It is necessary for the average citizen, if he wishes to make a living, to avoid incurring the ho...

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I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give - its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a...

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It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological eras...

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He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - ...

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Douglas AdamsThe Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Chur...

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Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment.

In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemploymen...

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Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the lik...

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Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy t...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the emp...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time ex...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

All governments stress an employment-intensive force of production, but are unwilling to recognize t...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or e...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.'What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a...

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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for in...

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Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

[If] a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for ...

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Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.

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N. K. JemisinThe Kingdom of Gods

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surv...

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