[Author and activist David] Korten urges the creation of new jobs directed at what he calls "the social economy." As factories automate, there is still plenty of work to be done, most of it a lot more interesting and challenging. Korten's social economy includes work like this: care for children and the elderly, educating young people, counseling addicts, providing really proper care for the mentally ill, maintaining parks and commons and extending them, organizing community social and cultural events, registering voters, cleaning up the environment, replanting forests, doing public interest advocacy, working on community gardens and recycling centers, retrofitting homes for energy conservation, teaching music and the arts to people who can't afford lessons.
— Daniel C. Maguire, David Korten, Sacred Energies by Daniel C. Maguire