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What you work for matters!
Peaceful environment for privileged people or efficient people who manage to live peacefully together and become priviledged? “Work must be placed above all competitive struggles. It is not a commodity.”. Albert Thomas “My Life is My Message” Gandhi The basic income should be insured so that workers are not compelled to work for immoral causes.…
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Brainstorm
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“I once calculated that I did about one thousand hours of work in the three years I was at Oxford-an average of an hour a day. I am not proud of this lack of work. I’m just describing my attitude at the time, shared by most of my fellow students”.
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“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do”
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Work
Work (1915) – Charlie Chaplin : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006313 —Moving Picture World synopsis Charles Chaplin, assistant to a paperhanger, is called with his boss to decorate a beautiful home. The boss makes him haul the wagon with all the paraphernalia upon the top of which he rides. Chaplin, dragging the wagon with difficulty, blocks traffic, bumps into a…
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Artisans Angkor, a SiemReap factory
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Do help Mrs Dalloway!
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf – eBook: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91md Mrs Dalloway’s 1997 film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119723/?ref_=nv_sr_1 What Singapore, Norway and Switzerland have in common ? According to OECD (http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/noncommunicable-diseases/mental-health/data-and-statistics), they are the 3 most advanced countries in the world. They also share the same approach to justice and mental health by providing their citizens with a system common to all.…
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AI: Artificial Intelligence
What a surprise to find a comic strip on Artificial Intelligence written by somebody called Montaigne! Marion Montaigne présente l’Intelligence artificielle – David Vandermeulen: https://youtu.be/DtdoNksCtmE Indeed, Montaigne discusses in the Essays whether the savages found mainly in Brazil are human beings or not and whether they should be considered humans, the way the barbarians in…
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Jiro’s art of working
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) – IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772925 ILO Director-General on the future of work – BBC interview: https://youtu.be/G4vlZ7N5Is8 ILO Director-General participates in future of work debate in Italy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LExpLqGugac The future of work we want – International Labour Office: http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/future-of-work/lang–en/index.htm