What the Whole World Wants Is a Good Job
An extended passage from Jim Clifton's The Coming Jobs War. His claim, drawn from years of Gallup data, is that the single most dominant thought on most people's minds is having a good job — and that this should be considered in every policy, every law, every social initiative.
Humans used to want love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace, and freedom above all. The argument is that the last few decades changed us: now people want, above all, a good job — and that this reframes everything leaders do, from waging war to building societies.
