Atreya-rsi:
“Unemployment?”
Prabhupada:
“Not employment. They’ll not work. That means mismanagement. Why they should remain down? Why they should remain without any employment? But the government is not doing that.”
Devotee:
“They do not feel inspired. No one has desire.”
Prabhupada:
“That, that means mismanagement. You had no desire to take to Krishna consciousness, but you have been taken to it by some, some way or other. That is management.”
Hrdayananda:
“Jaya, Prabhupada.”
Prabhupada:
“That is management.”
Hrdayananda:
“You are expert manager.”
Prabhupada:
“A child does not want to go to school, but it is the duty of the parent to send him to the school by some way or other. So that is government’s duty, that a man should be employed according to his capacity. There should be no unemployment. That is very dangerous position of the society. Now this unemployment question is very strong all over the world.
Prabhupada:
They’ll plan that,
‘This government is not good. That system is not good. He’s not good.’
And he’ll do nothing. He’ll personally do nothing. Just like the hippies, they criticize everyone, but he’ll not do anything. It is all… These descriptions are there in the Srimad-bhagavatam. We are going too far? Employed… [break] …from the government to utilize this land. You see? So much. Everywhere you’ll find. Everywhere you’ll find. Who was with me in London?”
Devotee:
“Yeah. Last time, last summer?”
Prabhupada:
“Letchmore Heath.”
Devotee:
“Yeah”!
Prabhupada:
“So much, lying vacant. They have taken it into consideration that,
‘What is the use of working in the land? Better kill one animal and eat easily.’
Because he does not care for sinful activities. The…
‘If I can eat the cow, why shall I take so much trouble to till the…?’
This is going on, all over the world.”
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