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I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can not just survive, but you can have a decent life.
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You know, there is an image of me out there for which advocacy of a universal basic income is inconsistent. It doesn't fit the narrative because this is supposed to be the hardhearted, racist, sexist, homophobe, Charles Murray. And he wants to increase spending on the poor? That doesn't fit.
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I think that a great deal of what made America special is lost beyond recall, and I don't have any good policy ideas that I am at all confident will go very far in bringing that back.
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IQ is a very important predictor, not just of academic success, but of economic success.
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The people who run the country have enormous influence over the culture, politics, and the economics of the country. And increasingly, they haven't a clue about how most of America lives. They have never experienced it.
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I want the new upper class to start preaching what it practices. They are getting married and staying married in large numbers. They work like crazy, long hours. They even do better going to church than lots of the rest of America. Why not just say, these are not just choices we have made for ourselves. These are rich, rewarding ways of living.
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There's a big difference between being good and being nice. Being good involves tough choices - tough love.
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Ecumenical niceness is just pabulum.
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Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population were propagandised into buying into a certain code of morals. I would be happy if we could emulate that in some way in America.
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The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I think fundamentally changed the signals and the incentives facing low-income people and encouraged a variety of trends that soon became self-reinforcing.
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I did not want my children to grow up only knowing other upper-middle-class kids like themselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am no longer a complete pariah in some academic quarters.
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I still want to find a way that leaves people free to live their lives without telling them what to do.
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A guaranteed basic income has the potential for making civic organizations, families and neighborhoods much more vital, helpful and responsive than they have been in decades.
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America's always been very good at providing help to people in need. It hasn't been perfect, but they've been very good at it.
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I want to keep the government out of the business of giving incentives to have or not have kids, or incentives to marry or not marry.
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