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"The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs."
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"Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees."

"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."

"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."

"We have drastically reduced leakages in the Employment Guarantee scheme and ensured that money reaches those for whom it is intended. We have focused on creating durable assets that benefit the population, rather than the touts."

"Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'"

"An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass."

"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."

"Employee' is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream."

"When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs."
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"The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs."

"Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!"

"We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions."

"Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division."
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