“The vast majority of families in poverty with children do not receive any help for child care. This again makes the United States a rarity: its public child care spending as a share of GDP is one-quarter of that of sixteen other OECD countries”
― 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
“It’s something they teach you in the army. The only thing under your direct control is how hard you work. In other words, if you really, really buckle down today, and you get the intelligence, the planning, and the execution each a hundred percent exactly correct, then you are bound to prevail.” “Sounds empowering.” “It’s the army. What they really mean is, if you fail today, it’s completely your own fault.”
― Blue Moon
― Blue Moon
“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
“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
“A light breeze caught the scent of roses and ruffled tall calma bushes with their big red or white blossoms.”
― The Shadow Rising
― The Shadow Rising
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