We feel free when
We feel free when we escape – even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. Eric Hoffer
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We feel free when we escape – even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. Eric Hoffer
Realists do not fear the results of their study. Fyodor Dostoevsky
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By \”business\” I mean the … Read more
Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see … Read more
Blue collar workers cannot hire each other. White collar workers cannot hire each other. You have to have a businessman or a businesswomen, a business owner to hire you. And you cannot make the environment so unfriendly to them or so unprofitable or so burdensome that they go out of business,because if they go out … Read more
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. Dolly Parton
Labor-rich manufacturing doesn’t exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots of people. David Brooks
A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic – as the scholars call it – abilities. Daniel H. Pink
The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time. Dana Goldstein
Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I’ve always wanted to get better at tennis. Chuck Klosterman