Economics Quote by Ivan Illich

“Employment wastes the productive time of our lives”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.”

— Ivan Illich

Nowadays excessive work and pressure are status symbols. Time to oneself is sooner equated with unemployment and laziness, certainly in countries where the wealth…

— Rutger Bregman

“A job is a temporary need”

— Sunday Adelaja

We are compelled to work more hours per day, receive less pay per hour, pay more for what we buy, and recieve less for…

— Charles Lindbergh

It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than…

— Edmund Ruffin

“Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. In a pre-industrial economy,…

— Isabel Paterson

“The lack of adequate breaks, holidays, and sleep takes a heavy toll on the amount of work that people can actually produce in a…

— Daniel Tudor

“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

“Employment deprives you of the purpose of existence”

— Sunday Adelaja

“It’s natural to feel limited by the constraints of our jobs from time to time. But rather than seeing those constraints as limitations, we…

— David Sturt