If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.
If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.
Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.
Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them.
My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.
Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.
Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.
The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.
