Goodi

“The dynamic of foraging created very different incentives to work than those to which we have become accustomed since the advent of farming. The capital requirements for life as a forager were minimal. A few primitive tools and weapons sufficed. There was no outlet for investment, not even private property in land.
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Having no permanent homes, they had little need to work hard to acquire property or maintain it.
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With no reason to earn and almost no division of labor, the concept of hard work as a virtue must have been foreign to hunting-and-gathering groups.
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There was literally nothing to be gained by working beyond the bare minimum required for survival.”
― William Rees-Mogg, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

“Contrary to the romantic jabberings of Marxists and others who have transformed the violent opponents of labor-saving technology in to heroes, they were an unpleasant and violent lot who opposed the introduction of technology that raised living standards worldwide for purely selfish reasons.”
― William Rees-Mogg, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

“Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, other people's future.”
― P.D. James, The Children of Men

“The late eighties: Welfare had not increased to match inflation, and unemployment was down. There might have been a connection.”
― Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, Footfall