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Rather than simply raising taxes across the board or on the highest existing tax bracket, a better strategy would be to introduce several new higher tax brackets designed to capture more revenue from those taxpayers with very high incomes—perhaps a million or more dollars per year.
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
First, do we want to live in a world where people pay for content? I’m not sure. For one, it presumes the most valuable things should be closed, when the beauty of the web is that that zero marginal cost of production means the most valuable things should reach whomever they are relevant to.
Sari Azout • Check your Pulse #45
once there’s enough food on the table, a roof that doesn’t leak, and clean running water to drink, economic growth is no longer a guarantor of welfare.
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
It’s time we told a different kind of story.
Rutger Bregman • Humankind: A Hopeful History
Herman Daly.