The challenge we must overcome is that humans need work more than work needs us.
Andrew Yang
Category: work
#118 – DEBS on WORK AND MONEY
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.
Eugene Debs
#116 – ANON on WRONG
There is no right way to do something wrong.
Anonymous…
#114 – Karlgaard on Patience
They are not attempting to satisfy, with gritted teeth, the expectations of their parents or society, a false path that leads to burnout and brittleness, or even to depression and illness… Late bloomers are those who find their supreme destiny on their own schedule, in their own way.
Rich Karlgaard
#113 – ISTVAN on Society
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It’s unequivocally absurd.
Zoltan Istvan
#112 – Martenson on Money
Real wealth is tangible things produced with tangible effort. Loans made out of thin-air ‘money’ require no effort and are entirely ephemeral. But if those loans are used to acquire real ownership of real assets, then something has been exchanged for nothing and one party is getting screwed.
Chris Martenson
#105 – Anon on Unemployment
A day unemployed is like a bagel – even when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.
Anonymous
#103 – Graeber on Work
We have become a civilization based on work—not even ‘productive work’ but work as an end and meaning in itself.
David Graeber
#80 – Bukowski on Work
Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.
Charles Bukowski
#79 – Dyatlov on Deadlines
If we can do everything at once then why do we need deadlines?
Dmitry Dyatlov
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