Anyone with a sneaking suspicion that socialism has a point, that people and their abilities are finite, is forever handicapped as a businessperson. If the pie is of a fixed size, one creates nothing, merely taking from others.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
Tout est informatisable. Les êtres humains doivent comprendre que la société postprofessionnelle, dans laquelle les gens ne produiront pas de valeur et ne contribueront pas à la prospérité, se profile. Une société d’êtres humains inutiles et parasites.
Jose Rodrigues dos santos • Immortel (French Edition)
Only from a capitalist viewpoint being productive is a moral virtue, if not a moral imperative. From the viewpoint of the working class, being productive simply means being exploited.
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
We have come to believe that men and women who do not work harder than they wish at jobs they do not particularly enjoy are bad people unworthy of love, care, or assistance from their communities.