These words were spoken, through a just alight dog end stuck to his bottom lip, by a labourer in a potato merchant to a friend of mine who was his foreman and was trying to hurry him up in loading the lorries. The message is don't work too hard or fast or the job will go.
But what really kills jobs?
We all know that jobs are a cost of production, not a benefit hence the costlier you make it to employ somebody the less jobs there will be.
Which brings me on to this (which I have just re-discovered):
It seems to me that the other takeaway from Fred's analysis is that by taxing labor not land you kill production which in turn kills jobs. Or rather the killing of jobs kills production.
Of course it gets worse. The value of money arises from production. Fiat money is what it says it is. Its value does not arise from production. So without production (and yes that would include house building) money must eventually have no value.
So on top of reducing production we now have money printing to save production...
It's not going to end well is it.
Unless we change course...