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“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life 鈥� when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings 鈥� when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors 鈥� when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats...”
― Listen, Little Man!
― Listen, Little Man!

“Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on the workers, environment, and future generations. As with the banking sector, they play games with the lives of millions, hysterically reject any kind of government intervention when the profits are rolling in, but are quick to pass the bill for the cleanup and the far-reaching consequences of these avoidable tragedies to the public when things go wrong. We have a straightforward proposal: if they want public money, we want public control. It's that simple.”
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“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today鈥檚 New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called 鈥渕oderate Republicans.鈥� The 鈥減olitical revolution鈥� that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower.
The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the 鈥�50s and 鈥�60s, the minimum wage鈥攚hich sets a floor for other wages鈥攖racked productivity. That ended with the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated (in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20 per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15.”
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The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the 鈥�50s and 鈥�60s, the minimum wage鈥攚hich sets a floor for other wages鈥攖racked productivity. That ended with the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated (in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20 per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15.”
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“All political movements are basically anti-creative 鈥� since a political movement is a form of war. 鈥淭here鈥檚 no place for impractical dreamers around here,鈥� that鈥檚 what they always say. 鈥淵our writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around.鈥� 鈥淎s for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers.鈥� Both favor alcohol and are against pot.”
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“People would look at teachers differently if they had to wear the uniform for their second job when on the clock”
― 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
― 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“He was thinking that the cities, perhaps, needed to look into the future even more than the country did. They should look ahead for forty, eighty, one hundred and sixty years, to a strong and healthy plain of population - or to an overworked, weakened, underfed, and infertile desert.”
― Heed the Thunder
― Heed the Thunder
“Persuading people they have more power than they do and ignoring the very real social barriers to attainment primes them for self-blame when reality fails to deliver. The worst extremes of phoney empowerment, argues Frayne, can be found in the trite aphorisms of the self-help industry, where popular psychologists ascribe to us almost magical abilities to alter circumstances despite the harsh realities constraining us. In a world where problems like disadvantage, unemployment and work-related distress are so socially embedded, downplaying the very real obstacles to opportunity is regularly experienced as yet another form of punishment, yet another form of blaming and shaming the individual.”
― Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
― Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
“Psycho-compulsion is therefore not just about instilling people with a so-called correct employability mindset. It is a mechanism for penalising deviation from what it defines as the right set of attitudes and behaviours. 鈥榃hat psycho-compulsion therefore attempts to do is silence alternative discourses to the neoliberal myth that you are to blame for your unemployment,鈥� said Friedli. 鈥楢t the same time, it undermines and erodes alternative frameworks around which people can come together in solidarity to act against the social causes of worklessness.鈥� In short, psycho-compulsion not only pathologises and punishes a claimant鈥檚 dissent, it depoliticises the causes of joblessness (which discourages collective action), and it does so by resuscitating Margaret Thatcher鈥檚 earlier myth that unemployment can be reduced to character deficiencies.”
― Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
― Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

“AI doesn't take any breaks. Plus, AI won't file sexual harassment charges when your boss flirts with it.”
― Powdered Saxophone Music
― Powdered Saxophone Music

“Some professional astronomy telescopes are associated with unusual illnesses and deaths in their workers.”
― Toxic Altitude
― Toxic Altitude

“My manager once told me to buy takeout food for the workers I supervised to reward them for completing a project. I asked him 'What is the budget I have for it?'. He told me there was no budget and I had to buy it!!! It was all downhill from there!”
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“When I was younger, I never had an appreciation of the health issues older workers were experiencing.”
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“Brenda was having none of it. She sat there like one of the working-class ladies of his childhood, bitter fighters with bright red faces, emanating a savage scary blankness that he understood to mean: Fuck you, you are not forgiven.”
― Liberation Day
― Liberation Day

“The corruption has been allowed to go on for too long and the masses will always associate the name 鈥楶olice鈥� with corrupt public workers.”
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“I have had so many negative interactions with electrical utility workers that I now avoid interacting with them!”
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“I see a lot of commonality between the health issues high altitude workers develop and Long COVID symptoms.”
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“...people can be divided into two groups: those who have worked in a bar, or cafe, or restaurant, or shop, and those who have not. And while it would be both unfair and untrue to say that everyone in the latter category treats those in the former as a second-class citizen, it is probably accurate to say that virtually nobody from the first category will do so.”
― Confessions of a Bookseller
― Confessions of a Bookseller

“I wouldn't work in a hospital again! They do not tell you about the high disease risks when they hire you. It is well known that hospital jobs are lemons today with the pandemic. One of my coworkers was suffering with chronic fatigue from her thirties onward. She has never been healthy since working there. She probably had an infection from a sickly patient and never recovered.”
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“Stop counting the forgotten people in this world, they are too many! Count the unforgotten, you will quickly find out the number of the forgotten!”
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“...袩褉邪褑褞胁邪谢懈 薪邪 褎邪斜褉懈泻邪褏, 褖芯 胁卸械 屑邪泄卸械 薪褨褔芯谐芯 薪械 胁懈锌褍褋泻邪谢懈, 泻褉褨屑 胁邪卸泻懈褏 褨薪写褍褋褌褉褨邪谢褜薪懈褏 褋褌芯谐芯薪褨胁.”
― 啸褌芯 褌懈 褌邪泻懈泄?
― 啸褌芯 褌懈 褌邪泻懈泄?

“The workers in professional astronomy were not informed about the extensive biological research that had been performed on high and very high altitude biological exposures.”
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“There is an effort underway in the USA by the rich to have workers working really long hours for not a lot of money or benefits.”
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“Scientific management, so-called, is an attempt to apply the methods of science to the increasingly complex problems of the control of labor in rapidly growing capitalist enterprises. It lacks the characteristics of a true science because its assumptions reflect nothing more than the outlook of the capitalist with regard to the conditions of production. It starts, despite occasional protestations to the contrary, not from the human point of view but from the capitalist point of view, from the point of view of the management of a refractory work force in a setting of antagonistic social relations. It does not attempt to discover and confront the cause of this condition, but accepts it as an inexorable given, a 鈥渘atural鈥� condition. It investigates not labor in general, but the adaptation of labor to the needs of capital.”
― Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
― Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

“Good bosses shield their employees from distress and distraction in diverse ways, whether behind the scenes or publicly. They work day after day to enhance their self-awareness; stay in tune with followers鈥� worries, hot buttons, and quirks; and foster a climate of comfort and safety. They also learn to identify which battles their people consider crucial to fight, and which they see as unimportant. When bosses can鈥檛 protect people鈥攆or example, from layoffs, pay cuts, or tough assignments鈥攖he best ones convey compassion, do small things to allay fears, and find ways to blunt negative consequences. Operating in this way helps bolster your people鈥檚 performance and well-being. And a nice by-product is that they will have your back, too.”
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“...executives are often insulated from the scale and variety of problems faced by junior employees. Even when senior leaders try to seek out information, most employees put on a brave face because they鈥檙e afraid to show weakness or vulnerability. Top leaders are further handicapped by their own psychology: Research shows that power reduces empathy, which means they identify less with both the frontline employees鈥� challenges and the middle managers who must deal with these issues daily.”
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