A message from 50 years ago to celebrate the author's 100th anniversary, birthday at 4th Sept. It's from Section "Disabling Market Intensity", Chapter "Useful Unemployment and its Professional Enemies" of #IvanIllich, "History of Needs", world cat
https://search.worldcat.org/title/6584700
'''‘‘‘Crisis has come to mean that moment when doctors, diplomats, bankers and assorted social engineers take over and liberties are suspended. Like patients, nations go on the critical list. Crisis, the Greek term that has designated "choice" or "turning point" in all modern languages now means "driver, step on the gas". [...]
Crisis, understood in this way, is always good for executives and commissars, especially those scavengers who live on the side effects of yesterday's growth: educators who live on society's alienation, doctors who prosper on the work and leisure that have destroyed health, politicians who thrive on the distribution of welfare which, in the first instance, was financed by those assisted.