clean water
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On inequality and disease.
Whose lives matter enough that we shut down? Whose matter so little we won’t save them with Gatorade?
45, 77-year-old white man, 78-year-old white man, abuse, age-related disease, age-related immunosenescence, AIDS, Albuterol, Bernie Sanders, cancer risk, CDC, clean water, climate change, climate destabilization, communicable diseases, coronavirus, coronavirus coverage, coronavirus test, coronavirus testing, cost of care, cost of clean water, cost of health care, cost of inhalers, cost of medical treatment, Covid-19, Covid-19 coverage, Covid-19 epidemic, Covid-19 pandemic, Covid-19 stimulus, Covid-19 testing, damage to our economy, deaths of despair, Democratic primary, demographics, diarrhea, dirty water, domestic violence, Donald Trump, drug addiction, economy, election, epidemic, essential business, essential businesses, far right, flatten the curve, Gatorade as medicine, generational privilege, global warming, health care, HIV, HIV epidemic, HIV pandemic, ICU, inequality, infectious disease, infectious diseases, inhaler, inhalers, intensive care unit, intimate partner violence, invasive ventilation, Joe Biden, malaria, New York Times, old white men, Pandemic, PCR testing, PotUS, presidential election, presidential primary, privilege, quarantine, respiratory infection, respiratory infections, school closure, seasonal influenza, seasonal influenza versus covid-19, shutdown, social distancing, social isolation, stay at home, stay at home order, stock market, suicide, suicide risk, top causes of death, Trump, Trump administration, ventilation, ventilators, water-born illnesses, wealth, wealth inequality, World Health Organization
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On Robert Gordon’s ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth.’
What if technological innovations are a cause of, not a solution to, our post-1970s economic morass?
Amazon, artificial intelligence, automation, CAFO, clean water, concentration of wealth, delivery drones, distribution of wealth, driverless cars, economics, electric appliances, factory farming, feminism, future technologies, GDP, GDP is not an effective measure of quality of life, GDP undercounts the value of caregiving, guaranteed basic income, Impossible Foods, increasing gains to capital, invention, labor versus capital, negative tax, no one’s choices should be curtailed because of gender, parenting, Pat Brown, pessimism, poverty causes stress, productivity, quality of life, reparations, Rise and Fall of American Growth, Robert Gordon, robotics, slow growth, social breakdown, Steven Rattner, technological progress, the value of a stay-at-home parent, wealth tax, William D. Nordhaus, women’s work has been historically undervalued
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