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Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Work, Unemployment, Desirable

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Work, Work Ethic, Ethics

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Witty, Work, Views

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Work, People, Twenties
"Made to Last". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 4, 1964.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Work, Tasks, Done
John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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