“Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
― Confessions of a Time Traveler
― Confessions of a Time Traveler
“Researchers believe there is a 50 percent chance of AI outperforming humans in all tasks in 45 years and of automating all human jobs in 120 years,” the survey’s authors noted.”
― Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
― Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
“prominent group of economists recently looked at randomized control trials of government cash-transfer programs from Honduras, Indonesia, Morocco, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Philippines. They found that receiving cash had no effect on the number of hours worked or the propensity to work, for both men and women. Indeed, the cash-transfer programs seemed to boost the amount that men worked, in some cases.”
― Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
― Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
“The issue is not that the United States cannot pull its people above the poverty line, but that it does not want to.”
― Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
― Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
“studied is just over a year.)”
― Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
― Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
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