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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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UBI and ghost work

Proponents of UBI today, who put it forth as a salve for the wounds cut by automation, frame the conversation as "Those poor sops who are at the bottom of the skills laddder! Let's be charitable and give them a hand." This ignores how dependent the future of work will be on contract on-demand labor…

—p.192 Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass by Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri
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the on-demand economy needs universal healthcare

[...] if the future is dependent on workers who cannot turn to theri employers of record to provide healthcare, society needs an alternative that reflects reality. Some make the case for unviersal healthcare, taking a charitable stance. The sick deserve our collective care. The cold bottom-line tru…

—p.189 by Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri