Division of labor Quote by Barry Eisler

“A crucial part of the modern capitalist economy was the emergence of a new ethic, according to which profits ought to be reinvested in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.”

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where…

— Neal Stephenson

“The idea is to be detached from the fruits of our labors, which means that we do things simply for the act of doing…

— Suzanne Morrison

“...but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot…

— John Locke

“As you found today, having no other options makes even menial labor desirable. Sever one attachment and others become more viable.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“It was ironic—the great socialists could only survive by becoming capitalists.” But”

— Jeff Guinn

“economics was largely a form of intellectual prostitution where you got rewarded for saying what the powers that be wanted to hear.”

— Max Tegmark

“Culture in the broadest sense includes all the labor which human power expends on nature.”

— Herman Bavinck

“In the wake of primitive accumulation, the wage relationship became a seemingly voluntary affair. Workers needed employment and employers wanted workers. In reality, of…

— Michael Perelman

“Prosperity depends on ferocity.”

— Anthony Doerr

“In every instance I noted that a people’s prosperity or misery lay in direct proportion to its freedom or its inhibitions and, along the…

— José Rizal