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"Man cannot live by incompetence alone."
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"Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever."

"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."

"There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right."

"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"

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