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The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough

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“Mr. Spencer says that the "miseries of the poor are thought of as the miseries of the deserving poor, instead of being thought of, as in large measure they should be, as the miseries of the undeserving poor." So conservative a political economist as John Stuart Mill has admitted, nay, positively stated, that no one but a romantic dreamer could believe that in modern society the rewards are proportioned to the work, and that even those poor people, commonly called the "undeserving poor," whose condition might with perhaps a trace of justice be said to be due to their own faults, have done and do more work than those who enjoy much worldly prosperity. One would need to be a philosopher to appreciate the. fact that poverty and misery are proportional to the laziness of the individual. The ordinary mortal, on being told that a man works a great many hours in a day, or, as they are popularly and with good reason called, "long hours," immediately jumps to the conclusion that that man's wages are small. The harder as well as the longer a man works, the smaller his wages are.”

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Book:The Individualist Anarchists: Anthology of Liberty, 1881-1908
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“Sergio ha descubierto para su mal, que bíblicamente hablando, el tiempo del trabajo es el tiempo de la condena. Se repite y multiplica de una manera muy diversa. El oficinista que espera ansioso la hora de salida de su oficina, o el fin de semana, o sus vacaciones anuales y más tarde su jubilación, y el preso que comparte una condena fija, comparten una misma espantosa paradoja: en nombre de la vida, quieren que el tiempo pase, sin percatarse de que así el tiempo que anhelan perder es el único tiempo suyo, el tiempo de su vida, un tiempo que nadie les podrá devolver. Un día lo descubren, y entonces ya no pueden dormir en paz.”

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Book:Wolves' Dream
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