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"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."
"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."
"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."
"And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable, even though the external particulars of life (like our pay checks, our office, and so forth) are, at best, random."
"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."
"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."
"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."
"Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever."
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"If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself."
"We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco."
"You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream."
"You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term."
"You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that."
"One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school."
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