Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.
E. F. SchumacherFrom the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.
E. F. SchumacherAny intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.
E. F. SchumacherMany of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.
E. F. Schumacher