Employment Quote by Ivan Illich

“Joblessness gives you unlimited access to wealth”

— Sunday Adelaja

“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from…

— Edmund Morris

“All governments stress an employment-intensive force of production, but are unwilling to recognize that jobs can also destroy the use-value of free time. They…

— Ivan Illich

“People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.”

— Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

“We tend to assign a lesser social value to those whose doing cannot be enslaved into a given output. We should look to them…

— Cole Arthur Riley

“And the unequal accumulation of wealth by the elites continued.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

“The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and the scanty…

— Charles William Eliot

“All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century.”

— Tony Judt

“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

“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