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    Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream
    Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream
    Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream
    Audiobook10 hours

    Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream

    Written by Andy Stern and Lee Kravitz

    Narrated by Chris Sorensen

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), spent four years traveling the country and asking economists, futurists, labor leaders, CEOs, investment bankers, entrepreneurs, and political leaders to help picture the U.S. economy twenty-five to thirty years from now. He vividly reports on people who are analyzing and creating this new economy-such as investment banker Steve Berkenfeld; David Cote, the CEO of Honeywell International; and Andy Grove of Intel. Through these stories, we come to a stark and deeper understanding of the toll technological progress will continue to take on jobs and income and its inevitable effect on tens of millions of people.

    But there is hope for our economy and future. The foundation of economic prosperity for all Americans, Stern believes, is a universal basic income. The idea of a universal basic income for all Americans is controversial, but American attitudes are shifting. Stern has been a game changer throughout his career, and his next goal is to create a movement that will force the political establishment to take action against something that many on both the right and the left believe is inevitable.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 28, 2017
    ISBN9781515984795
    Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream

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    • 2/5
      Unions and union leaders are scary. Priest on the top of the pyramid cutting out hearts levels of scary. Author claims he and not the American public elected Obama and I believe him.

      The book itself makes some interesting points and predictions but since it lacks any backing to the claims it makes beyond arguments from authority I'm not going to treat it as anything other than self serving backing to preconceived opinions. Coincidentally, I support universal income, I just don't find this book convincing.
    • 4/5
      This work starts with a description of the economy, and it's history. In particular, the effects of technology on jobs. Then he establishes the case that massive unemployment and inequality is just over the horizon. His solution is a basic income for all. He also discusses the history of this idea dating back to Thomas Paine. Finally he discusses proposals from the Right and Left to make it happen.