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Here's the one thing that I was ever good at, and all it took was IBM pouring tens of millions of dollars and its smartest people and thousands of processors working in parallel and they could do the same thing.
But what we do know is that it isn't 10 years or 10 billion dollars or a large humanoid robot away.
And the cost to the world is immense: 260 billion dollars lost every year on the losses to poor sanitation.
And you might think it's just good karma to see these guys stirring shit, but it's also good economic sense, because they're saving a million dollars a year.
The vertical axis now is thousands of dollars in today's prices.
You'll notice that in 1891, over on the left, we were at about 5,000 dollars.
Today we're at about 44,000 dollars of total output per member of the population.
We have in higher education a trillion dollars of student debt, and our college completion rate is 15 points, 15 percentage points below Canada.
In total, my research estimates that the GDP numbers miss over 300 billion dollars per year in free goods and services on the Internet.
Billions and billions of dollars for data that it's too late to use.
I don't know about a fiscal cliff, but I know there's an educational cliff that we are walking over right this very second, and if we allow folks to continue this foolishness about saying we can't afford this — So Bill Gates says it's going to cost five billion dollars.
What is five billion dollars to the United States?
When the country cares about something, we'll spend a trillion dollars without blinking an eye.
Now you can get much higher returns, of up to 16-to-one, if you include anti-crime benefits, if you include benefits to former preschool participants who move to some other state, but there's a good reason for focusing on these three dollars because this is salient and important to state legislators and state policy makers, and it's the states that are going to have to act.
So if someone gets a college degree, their lifetime earnings go up by a huge amount, over 700,000 dollars.
There's a lot of research evidence that those folks will stick around the state economy, and there's a lot of evidence that having more workers with higher skills in your local economy pays off in higher wages and job growth for your local economy, and if you calculate the numbers for each dollar, we get about three dollars back in benefits for the state economy.
So if you look at what it would cost if every state government invested in universal preschool at age four, full-day preschool at age four, the total annual national cost would be roughly 30 billion dollars.
So, 30 billion dollars is a lot of money.
On the other hand, if you reflect on that the U.S.'s population is over 300 million, we're talking about an amount of money that amounts to 100 dollars per capita.
A hundred dollars per capita, per person, is something that any state government can afford to do.
And if we want to translate that from just billions of dollars to something that might mean something, what we're talking about is that, for the average low-income kid, that would increase earnings by about 10 percent over their whole career, just doing the preschool, not improving K-12 or anything else after that, not doing anything with college tuition or access, just directly improving preschool, and we would get five percent higher earnings for middle-class kids.
If we halved that number, one estimate is it would create a net gain to the U.S. economy over 10 years, of nearly a trillion dollars.
Our foundation estimates that it could cost up to five billion dollars.
He needs help getting 10 million dollars.
It costs about 40,000 dollars to train a guide dog and train the recipient so that the guide dog can be an effective help to a blind person.
It costs somewhere between 20 and 50 dollars to cure a blind person in a developing country if they have trachoma.
But Chris went on to say that he didn't think that what he'd done was all that amazing, because he calculated that the number of life-years that he had added to people, the extension of life, was about the same that you could achieve if you gave 5,000 dollars to the Against Malaria Foundation.
And that did make me feel a little bit better, because I have given more than 5,000 dollars to the Against Malaria Foundation and to various other effective charities.
That's about 36,000, 37,000 dollars.
So the principal looks at it and says, 3 percent for 300,000 dollars?
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