Anti Wage-Slavery, Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 758-760

The United States faces a protracted unemployment crisis: 6.3 million fewer Americans have jobs than was true at the end of 2007. And yet the country's economic output is higher today than it was before the financial crisis.
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even a manufacturing revival is not likely to mean a great many new jobs on balance. Likewise, anyone whose hopes are pinned on "green jobs" may be disappointed. Though jobs will be created in the switch to cleaner energy sources, jobs tied to traditional energy will be lost in the same process.
"Tectonic Shifts" in Employment
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2012
BY DAVID TALBOT
technology review MIT

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Unemployment in the eurozone stayed at a record high in November as the impact of the sovereign debt crisis rumbled on, according to official figures.
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The jobless rate in the 17 nations that use the euro was 10.3% in November for the second month in a row, according to the Eurostat statistics agency.
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There were 16.3 million people in the bloc out of work.

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At the same time, an index of consumer confidence fell to a two-year low in December, the European Commission said.

Eurozone unemployment stays at record high
6 January 2012
BBC NEWS BUSINESS

1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

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xThis was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled.

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2. I wish I didn't work so hard.

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This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship. Women also spoke of this regret. But as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.
Regrets of the Dying
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