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I already absolutely love this book. Baby root workers!

I'm DEVOURING this book! Reading it on the train, on my walk, before bed, after waking up, and everywhere I possibly can!

"A broader change in our understanding of worth and compensation, of work and labor, would also be necessary. ... Leisure, comfort, and care would need to become essential to the workings of society rather than being supportive or incidental."

"Right now, the human worker who does, say, $50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, social security tax, all those things. If a robot comes in to do the same thing you'd think that we'd tax the robot at a similar level." - Bill Gates

"We worry about robots and Ubers and fast-food workers, but there is another crisis that is here, now, unacknowledged. It is a crisis of involving the people who swaddle our infants, feed our parents, protect those with dementia, and help heal the sick."

"Second shift. ... Many women work a double every day, taking care of homes and children and parents and sick relative when they are not formally on the clock. Accounting for both paid labor and unpaid care work, women toiled a month longer than their spouses each and every year. Mothers spend double the time with children that fathers do, at an average of 13.5 hours a week. They do roughly 2x the housework."

"The United States' racial diversity poses a formidable barrier to the development of universal social-welfare programs going forward, especially as long as the voting populace remains older, more conservative, and whiter than the populace write large."