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Sunday 7th of December 2025

Employment [Armen] Alchian and [Harold] Demsetz appear to be claiming that whenever individuals are free to exit a relationship, authority cannot exist within it. This is like saying that Mussolini was not a dictator, because Italians could emigrate. While emigration rights may give governors an interest in voluntarily restraining their power, such rights hardly dissolve it. Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Employment As many as 30 million American workers without four-year college degrees have the skills to realistically move into new jobs that pay on average 70 percent more than their current ones. That estimate comes from a collaboration of academic, nonprofit and corporate researchers who mined data on occupations and skills. New York Times, December 3, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Employment [A]t-will employment, which entitles employers to fire workers for any or no reason, grants the employer sweeping legal authority not only over workers' lives at work but also over their off-duty conduct. … The state  has established the constitution of the government of the workplace: it is a form of private government. Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Employment The country typically creates some 5 million jobs in any given month, economists say–offset by nearly as many jobs that are eliminated, with the difference working out to a net gain of about 180,000 a month in recent years. “When you have almost 200 million workers in the U.S., you cannot move the needle cutting deals for 800 jobs,” said Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford University economist. “If Trump can make one deal a day, it would take him 20 years to create as many jobs as the U.S. economy does in one month. It makes great media but poor government.” Wall Street Journal, January 20, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment The crucial problem isn't creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms. Consequently, by 2050 a new class of people might emerge – the useless class. People who are not just unemployed, but unemployable. … So what will the useless class do all day? Yuval Harari, The Guardian, May 8, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment The economy increasingly requires people with very high skills or very few. The far more numerous jobs requiring “middle” skills that could be learned principally on the job are disappearing. Edward Luce, Time to Start Thinking  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment Employers can already act on their prejudices to deny people a job. But facial recognition [software] could make such bias routine, enabling firms to filter all job applications for ethnicity and signs of intelligence and sexuality. The Economist, September 9, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment Employment growth is slow and unsteady at most small firms, with the median small business adding fewer than one full-time position a year, despite the sector'r reputation as the engine of U.S. job growth. — Share of small firms adding or losing employees in a year Gained more than 2 20.4% Gained 1–2 11.4% Gained less than 1 31.7% Lost less than 1 21.0% Lost more than 1 15.5%  Wall Street Journal, January 20, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment Even within Los Angeles County, there had seemed no meaningful understand- ing that if General Motors shut down its assembly plant in Van Nuys, say, as it did in fact do in 1992, twenty-six hundred jobs lost, the bell would eventually toll in Bell Air, where the people lived who held the paper on the people who held the mortgages in Van Nuys. Joan Didion, Where I Was From © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment General, what job do you want? Ivanka Trump, to Michael T. Flynn, whom she invited to a Nov. 11, 2016, meeting of the Trump transition team without telling chairman Chris Christie, who had warned Trump about hiring Flynn © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment  Handmaids Tale called and you got the job @OutlawII to Katie Britt while watching her deliver the Republican's response to Biden's 2024 SOTU speech © 2024 Kwiple.com
Employment I'm sad to give up the best job in the world. But them's the breaks. Boris Johnson, July 7, 2022, announcing he's resigning as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after his government was discredited by a series of scandals © 2022 Kwiple.com
Employment In the employment contract … the workers cannot separate them- selves from the labor they have sold; in purchasing command over labor, employers purchase command over people.  Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Employment There's a beauty in those two words. When you utter those words, there's very little that can be said. There's a succinctness to those words. Donald Trump on his catchphrase, “You're fired!” © 2016 Kwiple.com
 
Employment They [economists Paul Beaudry, David Green and Benjamin Sand] show that since 2000 the share of employment accounted for by high- skilled jobs in America has been falling. As a result, college-educated workers are taking on jobs that are cognitively less demanding, displacing less educated workers. Economist, January 14, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com