People usually don’t like to lose their job and to have to find another one. It’s anxiety producing. We also want a never-ending increase in our material well-being. We can’t have it both ways. Especially in the United States, the overall interest of the consumer has won out. We may not like it, but we change jobs...
In the United States, the lack of restraint on the nature of competition has resulted in rapid innovation in new goods and services, and new job creation. As a result, employment levels have remained high.
—William W. Lewis, The Power of Productivity, p. 265