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Work or Welfare?

Does the baffling shortage of workers presage a post-work society, in which only a select few work and many live on the "welfare" of a universal basic income, their jobs having been eliminated by automation?
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The Great Nudge is a contemporary form of thought control.

The Great Nudge

Contemporary thought control takes the form of a gentle nudge that gradually closes off one’s critical faculties and leads one to comply.
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Own Nothing and Love It

by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox — Today, the class of small property owners is being undermined by tech and financial interests, and increasingly intrusive bureaucracies.
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Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky examine how California can restore the California Dream to middle and working class Californians.

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Beyond Feudalism

Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky examine how California drifted toward feudalism, and how it can restore upward mobility for middle and working-class citizens.

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