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==Quotes== | ==Quotes== | ||
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| − | <p>It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors.</p> | + | <p>We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors.</p> |
<p>The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.</p> | <p>The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.</p> | ||
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<div align=right>— [[Buckminster Fuller]] ({{wikiquote|Buckminster Fuller}}, [http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/133403-we-should-do-away-with-the-absolutely-specious-notion-that GoodReads])</div> | <div align=right>— [[Buckminster Fuller]] ({{wikiquote|Buckminster Fuller}}, [http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/133403-we-should-do-away-with-the-absolutely-specious-notion-that GoodReads])</div> | ||
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| + | <p>There is no reason why, in a society which has reached the general level of wealth ours has, the first kind of security should not be guaranteed to all without endangering general freedom; that is: some minimum of food, shelter and clothing, sufficient to preserve health. Nor is there any reason why the state should not help to organize a comprehensive system of social insurance in providing for those common hazards of life against which few can make adequate provision.</p> | ||
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| + | <div align=right>— [[F.A. Hayek]], ''[[The Road to Serfdom]]'' (to be verified)</div> | ||
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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
I'm using "imprisonment of wealth" as a less-loaded alternative to "hoarding of wealth". | I'm using "imprisonment of wealth" as a less-loaded alternative to "hoarding of wealth". | ||