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And it is this gospel of selfishness which forms the ideological cornerstone of neoliberal economics, a way of thinking which has produced economic policies which have enabled me and my rich buddies in the top one percent to grab virtually all of the
benefits
of growth over the last 40 years.
The assumption there is that we're all constantly calculating the costs and
benefits
of every one of our actions and optimizing that to make the perfectly right, rational decision.
Or maybe it has other benefits— for example, it might still be a reservoir of bacteria that helps us break down food.
And that means an increase incentive to do research and development, which
benefits
everyone in the world.
Environmental justice, for those of you who may not be familiar with the term, goes something like this: no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental
benefits
than any other.
This comes at a high cost to taxpayers and produces no proportional
benefits.
Government funding should at least do things like recognize cost
benefits
of basic science and engineering research.
But despite its huge benefits, chemotherapy has one big disadvantage: it affects other healthy cells in the body that naturally have to renew rapidly.
But today democracy has become a bottom-up process where everybody has realized the
benefits
of having a voice, the
benefits
of being in an open society.
They have no benefits: they don't have social security; they don't have pension; they don't have healthcare; none of those things.
We can use technology for direct
benefits.
Some of the obvious
benefits
of growing food in this way is that you have year-round vegetable production, you have consistent quality and you have predictable output.
Some of the other major
benefits
include significant resource use efficiencies, particularly water.
For every dollar invested in worm control and prevention, African countries see up to 42 dollars return in economic
benefits.
There would be a global recession and depression as our just-in-time inventory system and the tight rubber band of globalization broke, and the cost to our economy of one to three trillion dollars would be far worse for everyone than merely 100 million people dying, because so many more people would lose their job and their healthcare benefits, that the consequences are almost unthinkable.
If you're a veteran and you're applying for your health
benefits
using a paper form, you might have to wait months for that form to be processed.
We replaced that with a web form, and now most veterans find out if they can get access to their health
benefits
in 10 minutes.
Right now the Sloan Foundation has just funded a multi-institutional study on this, to work out what the risk and
benefits
to society are, and the rules that scientific teams such as my own should be using in this area, and we're trying to set good examples as we go forward.
The data hinted that the persistence of the Tay-Sachs mutation among Ashkenazi Jews might be explained by the
benefits
of being a carrier in an environment where tuberculosis was prevalent.
The
benefits
of being a Tay-Sachs carrier were highest in those places where the risk of death due to TB was greatest.
If you try to change the rules in a village, you could do that, but a village would be too small to get the kinds of
benefits
you can get if you have millions of people all working under good rules.
And they're large enough to get all of the
benefits
that we can have when millions of us work together under good rules.
So if we allow for these kind of partnerships to replicate this again, we can get those kinds of
benefits
scaled throughout the world.
Whereas China could get healthy much earlier, because they applied the knowledge of education, nutrition, and then also
benefits
of penicillin and vaccines and family planning.
Even though both approaches are similarly effective at killing the virus, soap and water has two benefits: first it washes away any dirt which could otherwise hide virus particles.
The European Union, which by now was beginning to reap the
benefits
of globalization, transforming it into the most affluent consumer market in history, eventually comprising some 500 million people.
It recognizes that the market has its limitation, and so patient capital also works with smart subsidy to extend the
benefits
of a global economy to include all people.
The idea of major cognitive
benefits
to bilingualism may seem intuitive now, but it would have surprised earlier experts.
And any nation that would become protectionist over the next few years would deprive itself of the chance of getting the
benefits
of growth in the world economy.
I mean, you heard that I got a speeding ticket while I was researching my book on the
benefits
of slowness, and that's true, but that's not all of it.
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