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“Army?” “Stands for, aren’t really Marines yet.” “Like Marine stands for muscles are requested, intelligence not expected.”
― Blue Moon
― Blue Moon
“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
“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
“Perhaps the most prominent argument for a UBI has to do with technological unemployment—the prospect that robots will soon take all of our jobs. Economists at Oxford University estimate that about half of American jobs, including millions and millions of white-collar ones, are susceptible to imminent elimination due to technological advances”
― 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
Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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