Sublime

The central question of this book is this: Where do prosperity and economic security come from? I believe they don’t come from a single magic-bullet mechanism like wage subsidies, a robot tax, tougher antitrust measures, a higher minimum wage, or universal basic income. Rather they can only emerge from a complex macro mechanism that goes way beyond

This is the first lesson in this book: economic security isn’t a function of what you earn but what you keep and knowing how much is enough for you.

Above all, it’s about truly shaping the future. Whatever the outcome of the current administration, many people expect the Democratic Party to strike a determined counter-attack, polarizing the debate on the safety net even more. Instead of looking back at the past with nostalgia, the opportunity that we must all seize together is to imagine a

Today’s challenge is not about securing the old working class of the age of the automobile and mass production. Rather it is to create more, better jobs for the new working class in urban proximity services. It consists in making those jobs more attractive while making those services more affordable for a larger number of customers.

These are all highly contestable statements.