"[Boulding once said, in response to a forecast that someday every American would be earning $100,000 per year] So what? Someone will still have to take out the garbage."
— Kenneth Boulding

January 1, 1970

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Attributed to Kenneth Boulding in: Donella Meadows (1989) "Thoughts While Cleaning The Living Room: Domestic work is undervalued - but it doesn't need to be" in Caring For Families Vol 21. (Spring 1989). p. 16