{"quotes":[{"text":"*I’m hustling* is a low self-esteem having man’s way of saying *I’m unemployed,* when answering a seemingly materialistic woman’s question as to what he does for a living.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["employment","low-self-esteem","materialism","self-esteem","unemployment","work"],"id":9527,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["employment","heaven","heaven-and-hell","hell","humor","humour","interview","job","religion","the-purpose-of-life","unemployment"],"id":16665,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"People keep asking what I do for a living and I keep saying that I don’t believe in making a living. That it’s a concept that has been twisted. I tell them I believe in making a life and money is a distracting object if there’s anything left at the end of the day and I just want to go on well. Make it through the day. So I smile and raise my glass and they laugh and take my hand, saying ”here’s to the youth”, pointing at me. And I might just be youngand naivefor I still believe in the freedom of choiceof how to spend your life.So they toast to the youth, who still think she’s free, and that’s all fine by me.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["berlin","drinks","drunk","free","freedom","growing-up","life","location-independent","making-a-living","money","nomadic","self-reliance","songwriter","unemployment","vagabond","wanderer","youth"],"id":27422,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["annual","annually","economics","economy","employee","employees","employer","employers","employment","envious","envy","income","jealous","jealousy","job","jobs","passive","passive-income","payday","salary","unemployment","wage","wages","work"],"id":40462,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"There are stories — legends, really — of the “steady job.” Old-timers gather graduates around the flickering light of a computer monitor and tell stories of how the company used to be, back when a job was for life, not just for the business cycle. … The graduates snicker. A steady job! They’ve never heard of such a thing.","author":"Max Barry","tags":["business","jobs","unemployment"],"id":47256,"author_id":"Max+Barry"},{"text":"Eric, you need to look at the whole picture,' the PM said. 'You look at the jobless as a huge pile of scrap and you're looking for what can be recycled. That's good. That's your job. But what you don't realise is that this pile of scrap itself serves a purpose. I need my zeros, Eric. They put fear in people; fear of crime and terrorism. They are a stark reminder to the stakeholders that what they despise today, they may end up joining tomorrow. It keeps them obedient. Remember that!","author":"Mark Cantrell","tags":["dystopia","government","satire","science-fiction","society","unemployment"],"id":47999,"author_id":"Mark+Cantrell"},{"text":"I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.","author":"Howard Zinn","tags":["crimes","criminal-justice-system","cycle-of-violence","desperation","greed","homelessness","imprisonment","incarceration","jail","justice","poverty","prison","punishment","racism","retribution","unemployment"],"id":66537,"author_id":"Howard+Zinn"},{"text":"In recent years a smaller share of young adults has been employed than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking such trends in 1948. So it's not surprising that this generation of youthful protesters has a different focus for their grievances: the economy, stupid. But notice the targets they've chosen to demonize. It's all about class, not age. It's 1% versus 99%, not young versus old. Occupy Wall Street, not Occupy Leisure World.","author":"Pew Research Center","tags":["1-percent","99-percent","age","age-difference","aging","american-dream","baby-boomers","boomers","class","class-struggle","economics","economy","employment","labor","labor-activism","laboring-class","millenials","occupy","occupy-wall-street","protesters","public-policy","unemployment","working-class-america"],"id":72434,"author_id":"Pew+Research+Center"},{"text":"Let your strength from the pastprovide proof of your abilities to . . .Conquer the difficulties of the present.","author":"John-Talmage Mathis","tags":["advice","empowerment","ordeals","past","strength","unemployment"],"id":75313,"author_id":"John-Talmage+Mathis"},{"text":"Young people have limited choices, but they are also useful human resources.","author":"Santosh Kalwar","tags":["choices","human","people","resources","unemployment","young"],"id":88570,"author_id":"Santosh+Kalwar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}