Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.
What we need is much more flexibility for the labour markets.
All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.
Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.
For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.
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