Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 1310-1312

there are more working-age people in the United States receiving some form of welfare than there are working-age people who do not.
Why and How Should We Build
a Basic Income for Every Citizen?
by Marshall Brain
September 15, 2014

The growth of administrative work has directly resulted from introducing corporate management techniques. Invariably, these are justified as ways of increasing efficiency and introducing competition at every level. What they end up meaning in practice is that everyone winds up spending most of their time trying to sell things: grant proposals; book proposals; assessments of students’ jobs and grant applications; assessments of our colleagues; prospectuses for new interdisciplinary majors; institutes; conference workshops; universities themselves (which have now become brands to be marketed to prospective students or contributors); and so on.

Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit

David Graeber 

The Baffler

Over the years, the government has fined drug companies billions of dollars for pushing unapproved uses of drugs. More perilously, drugs get approved prematurely and result in mass sickness and fatalities. This human toll takes an estimated 100,000 deaths a year in the U.S. from adverse effects of such drugs. For example, the drug Vioxx, sold by Merck & Co., Inc., as an anti-inflammatory drug, stayed on the market from 1999 to 2004 despite documented cardiovascular risks. According to the well-regarded medical journal Lancet, an estimated 88,000 Americans had heart attacks from taking Vioxx and 38,000 of them died!
The Havoc of the Unrestrained Drug Industry
Ralph Nader
September 12, 2014
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