Top One Percent
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
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Liemandt: AI tutoring makes reaching the top 1% about effort, not IQ
“Because of how these AI tutor works. It's not about IQ. It's literally about effort. Wow. And we show them if you, if with this tutor put in the right way in the system, they all can do it. And it literally will calculate for them. It's this many hours of time…”
Taibbi: Bottom 99% lost wealth while top 1% gained millions under Obama
“During the Obama years the bottom 99% saw their average wealth decrease by 4900 dollars, whereas the top one percent saw its wealth increase by an average of 4.9 million dollars.”
Brynjolfsson: Tech progress caused stagnating median incomes over the past 20 years
“Now, to be clear, that's not what happened for most of the past 200 years, but the past 1020 years, there really have been more and more people being left behind, and so you could get stagnating median incomes, even as some people, maybe in the top one percent…”