Categories Quote by Frederic Bastiat

“There has not been a piece of technology designed to save labor that has not increased labor,”

— Wayne Gladstone

The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines.

— Noam Chomsky

“There has not been a piece of technology designed to save labor that has not increased labor. Word processors allow you to do what…

— Wayne Gladstone

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled…

— Mary McCarthy

The last 200 years, we've had an incredible amount of automation. We have tractors that do the work that horses and people used to…

— David Autor

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

— T. S. Eliot

There's always new work to do. Adjusting to the rapid pace of technological change creates real challenges, seen most clearly in our polarized labor…

— David Autor

We have to have workers that will produce more and will stop work when it is not needed.

— Eliyahu Goldratt

“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

As a technologist, I see the trends, and I see that automation inevitably is going to mean fewer and fewer jobs. And if we…

— Edward Snowden

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

— Charles Babbage

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

— Pablo Casals