Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 1515-1517

Statistics Canada began tracking job vacancies in response to claims of a labour shortage by governments and corporate Canada. But the number of vacancies falling below 200,000 casts further doubt on the notion that Canada is suffering from a shortage of workers.

The real problem is a shortage of jobs.

Erin Weir
The Progressive Economics Forum

Jack Saturday says: No, the real problem is a shortage of vision a few decades into an abundance economy. "Creating jobs" is like trying to improve the horse-and-buggy not only after the Model T, but after the Lamborghini or Nova C8. The work-like-a-horse ethic is obsolete. 

The topic of the market is intricately related to the deterioration of the environment. Pollution affects not only the air, the rivers and the forests but also our souls. A society possessed by the frantic need to produce more in order to consume more tends to reduce ideas, feelings, art, love, friendship and people themselves to consumer products. Everything becomes a thing to be bought, used and then thrown in the rubbish dump. No other society has produced so much waste as ours has. Material and moral waste.
OCTAVIO PAZ
IN SEARCH OF THE PRESENT
Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1990
Mexico City, Mexico

Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires.... But what history really shows is that today's empire is tomorrow's ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.
Mumia Abu-Jamal