"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Labor, Work, Society, Slavery, Freedom

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"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."

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"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."

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"Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

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