Employer Employee Relationship

The relationship between an employer and employee is permeated by the same spirit of indifference. The word 'employer' contains the whole story; the owner of capital employs another human being as he "employs" a machine. They both use each other for the pursuit of their economic interests. Their relationship is one in which both are means to an end, both are instrumental to each other. It is not a relationship of two human beings who have only interest in the other outside of this mutual usefulness.

- Erich Fromm

Freedom of Fear