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The Boomer Contradiction on Children's Rights
An AI narration of the article 'The Boomer Contradiction on Children's Rights' by Jake Desyllas.
Since the 1960s the West has settled on a curious pair of beliefs about children: that they have no rights at all before birth, and strong, enforceable rights the moment after it. Most people hold both positions at once and feel no strain. Jake Desyllas argues that the strain is real, and that it canno
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“Since I sold my business, my priority in life has been freedom. I have arranged my consumption habits and financial life around the goal of giving myself the freedom to do whatever I want with my day. I treasure never having to work on anything that I don’t want to. I now live from passive investments as a private investor. I spend my time only on projects and activities that I feel enthusiastic about.”
― Job Free: Four Ways to Quit the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom on Your Terms
― Job Free: Four Ways to Quit the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom on Your Terms
“There is a dignity in the very effort to save with a worthy purpose. … It produces a well-regulated mind; it gives prudence a triumph over extravagance; it gives virtue the mastery over vice; it puts the passions under control; it drives away care; it secures comfort. Saved money, however little, will serve to dry up many a tear—will ward off many sorrows and heartburnings, which otherwise might prey upon us. —Samuel Smiles, 1875”
― Job Free: Four Ways to Quit the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom on Your Terms
― Job Free: Four Ways to Quit the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom on Your Terms
“. If he had pursued a more traditional Wall Street career, he might have spent his remaining 28 years amassing a bigger and bigger fortune and spending it on the momentary pleasures of a consumption-oriented lifestyle.”
― Job Free: Four Ways to Quit the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom on Your Terms
― Job Free: Four Ways to Quit the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom on Your Terms
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