Bryan

“A common expression among laid-off workers fifty-five years and older who are struggling to find work is “you don’t even exist.” You cobble a job here and a job there, always marginal to management. Apply for a job you’re well qualified for and you’ll probably never hear back from the employer.”
― Chris Farrell, Unretirement: How Baby Boomers Are Changing The Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life

“Confucius, the philosopher and politician who was born in the sixth century B.C.E. He acquired a place in Chinese history akin to that of Socrates in the West, in part because his ideology encouraged order and loyalty. “There is government,” Confucius said, “when the prince is prince, and the minister is minister; when the father is father, and the son is son.” Confucius linked morality to the strength of the state: “He who exercises government by means of virtue may be compared to the North Star, which holds its place while all other stars turn around it.”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill a huge emotional and psychological void left by the absence of meaningful work. When people cease to find meaning in work, when work is boring, alienating, and dehumanizing, the only option becomes the urge to consume—to buy happiness off the shelf, a phenomenon we now know cannot suffice in the long term.”
― Richard Florida, The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity