Abandoned Quote by Bob Hawke

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable…

— John Maynard Keynes

“In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work. The infrastructure…

— Ivan Illich

“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or…

— Ivan Illich

In some of the estates, there are generations of people who have been without work, so the environment and the example passed down generations…

— Michael Portillo

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is…

— E. F. Schumacher

“Employment deprives you of the purpose of existence”

— Sunday Adelaja

Unemployed and dependent - is not as parasite.

— Jason Read

The people who are unemployed want to do the work, but the system is such a catastrophic failure that it cannot bring together idle…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Ivan Illich

“Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be…

— Albert Einstein

We've created the class of folks who are unemployed for longer than a year that it's very, very difficult to reconnect to society.

— Kevin Hassett

The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive…

— Will Durant