Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 1002-1004

Understanding that not your work but your story is what enriches and nourishes the world may give you some different sense of identity. You are not what you work or what you do, you are, what you perceive and what you can marvel about. This not only nourishes you but the world as well. When you see that happy unemployment consists in the understanding that you and the world are undeserved, but loving, buddies, then you may even start to pick up a tool one day, a pen, something this or that. When you understand that your activity is not about you but the you inside all, then addiction has been replaced by gratitude and admiration. You may then even work, now and then. But not too much. Because the world needs less work, not more. And so do you.
A Beginner’s Guide to Happy Unemployment
Posted on June 29, 2013
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Twitter-like microblogging sites in China are full of laments from graduates with dim prospects.

The Chinese government is worried, saying that the problem could affect social stability, and it has ordered schools, government agencies and state-owned enterprises to hire more graduates at least temporarily to help relieve joblessness. “The only thing that worries them more than an unemployed low-skilled person is an unemployed educated person,” said Shang-Jin Wei, a Columbia Business School economist.
Faltering Economy in China Dims Job Prospects for Graduates
By KEITH BRADSHER and SUE-LIN WONG
New York Times
Published: June 16, 2013
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 LONDON — Unemployment in the euro zone continued its relentless march higher in April, according to official data published Friday, hitting yet another record, amid a prolonged recession and the absence of a coordinated response by policy makers.
Unemployment Hits Record High in Euro Zone
By JACK EWING
New York Times
Published: May 31, 2013
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