Let's go to Madurai, India and test it.

If I have a nice sofa, and a TV set, and I go on vacations, that's consumption.

I don't think that's working anymore.

Living standards should be higher.

There is an urgent need for improved living conditions.

Korea shows you what's possible in education.

The first headwind is demographics.

We take our high standard of living for granted.

These people go to bed hungry.

Material standards of living were never higher.

In proportion as our GNP increases, our living standards go up.

Well, it's a matter of arithmetic.

What really changed after the ouster of Mubarak wasn't that life got easier.

Statistics indicate that our living standards have risen.

More importantly, changing diets.

There's no exchange of ideas between them.

I'm also sure that technology will advance, and therefore living standards will advance.

Hence the name Basic income.

You know, the famous scientist, E. O. Wilson said that if every person on this planet attains the standard of living of the average European or American, we need three new planets.

Yet the productive mechanism of society is what makes it scarce, artificially so.

Now how many of you have ever gone to a state park or a national park where you had a big sign at the front saying,

That's why you can communicate on the nature of the planets, and people will listen to you.

Look left, look right one of you will be there.

It is not seen as an alternative to public social services.

And so both sides raise each other's standards of living through the sexual division of labor.

As for the standard of living, the republic has caught up with the West.

In an affluent society most people have a high standard of living.

(Laughter) I had to think about the future.

During which surveys were conducted at 3 points. baseline, midline, and endline, to study the impact of cash transfers on households.

But it improves our standard of living and the goal of all countries is really to improve that average standard of living.

Sewage treatment facility.

And it basically made the argument that Chinese men who ate rice would necessarily bring down the standard of living for American men who ate meat.

And the family was united.

Food, water, electricity. All the comforts.

The regions with the fewest natural resources rely on importation to increase their standard of living.

Consumption isn't always a bad thing.

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As for the standard of living, the republic has overtaken other developed countries.

Of course, a basic income can be exploited.

Maybe we could make a nice, decent life for ourselves

We're able to draw upon specialization and exchange to raise each other's living standards.

I will give points for those who know it.

Over the last hundred years, we started building cars, and then over the 50 years we've connected every city to every other city in an extraordinarily efficient way, and we have a very high standard of living as a consequence of that.

Also the towns that are designated as shelter providers might get into a situation in which they have to evacuate themselves.

They may not want to be Americans, or Brits, or Germans, or South Africans, but they want their own version of a life which is more prosperous, and more dynamic, and more, you know, enjoyable.