Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
From Barbara Ehrenreich
Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.
I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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