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“Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof they were busy.”

Book:How Washington Really Works

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“While much of postmodernist analysis should be credited with theoretical imagination, as well as talent for capturing something of the Zeitgeist, this type of analysis nonetheless misses some crucial facts about consumption: that consumption is vitally linked to production; consumption is anchored in concrete relations; and the driving force in consumption is individual interest, as encouraged and often shaped by profit interests.”

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Book:Principles of Economic Sociology

Source: Principles of Economic Sociology

“If Southwest Airlines computers are not being fixed, what else is not being fixed?”

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Author:Steven Magee

“As a Chartered Electrical Engineer working for one of the largest electrical utility company’s in the USA, I found I was working in an environment that my training told me was completely abnormal and dangerous!”

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Author:Steven Magee

“When you discover your job is dangerous, you do not report it to the company or OSHA. You leave at the earliest opportunity.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I worked for a utility electrical company and I was completely overloaded and overworked! I hated it!”

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Author:Steven Magee

“The deeper one sinks into matter, the more the elements of division and opposition gain force and scope; and, contrariwise, the more one rises toward pure spirituality, the nearer one approaches that unity which can only be fully realized by consciousness of universal principles.”

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Book:The Crisis of the Modern World

Source: The Crisis of the Modern World

“When I worked at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii, it was a mismanaged group of telescopes with many OSHA workplace violations.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“The USA I am familiar with cannot be called the greatest nation on earth.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I regard high voltage electricity as one of the most toxic forms of electricity. Few people that come into contact with it survive. The higher the voltage, the less likely it is the person will survive. Those that do survive are typically maimed for life. Losing limbs is common, as are extensive burns, nerve damage and scarring. Having studied it, I will no longer work with it for safety reasons.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“When I worked in USA professional astronomy it was understaffed, we could not keep up with maintenance tasks, salaried employees were working extremely long unpaid hours, the telescopes were in extreme environments, and there were some shady health and safety issues.”

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Author:Steven Magee

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