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Of course, as the United States built a safety net that excluded and punished black families, it created a wealth-building apparatus to buoy and enrich white ones. It is not market forces and individual effort alone that determine who succeeds and prospers and who remains impoverished and excluded in the United States, but government policy and deep-seated cultural and societal mores.
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― Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
― Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
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...a UBI is not a salve for a world of technological unemployment, or a powerful antipoverty measure, or a form of social dividend, or a way to boost the earnings of the working poor. Rather, it is all those things and more: a paradigmatic shift that would free people from having to do more work that they did not want to do at all. A UBI would, in essence, lop off the bottom of the psychologist Abraham Maslow's 'hierarchy of needs', where air, food, water, and shelter reside, with self-transcend
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― Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
― Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
