It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.


WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (ed. Pantheon, 1990)

Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse ...

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse ...

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse ...

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse ...