“The most popular labor saving device is still money.”
“Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.”
“Employment: I’ll trade my time and labor for your money. So time is not money, because money is time plus labor. I spend my time saving money, I spend my money saving time, and I labor hard to not labor hard.”
“We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.”
“Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.”
“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.”