“How are you going to determine what the work is worth unless you begin thinking that a day’s work is worth a certain sum of money.”
The quote above was written by Elwood Mead the famous dam builder in 1927. He was consulting in Israel at the time and was arguing against the Socialist Zionists and the Kibbutz movement. He was so famous that after he supervised the construction of Hoover Dam, Lake Mead was named after him.
Mead turned out to be prescient about socialism. The kibbutz movement is coming to an end in Israel.
Here is a little known fact: Mead designed many of the water projects that made the Jezreel, Esdraelon and Jordan Valleys bloom.