Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn

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Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes makes the case that one percenters like him must pay their fortune forward in a radically simple way: a guaranteed income for working people.
The first half of Chris Hughes’ life played like a movie reel right out of the “American Dream.” He grew up in a small town in North Carolina. His parents were people of modest means, but he was accepted into an elite boarding school and then Harvard, both on scholarship. There, he met Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz and became some of the co-founders of Facebook.

In telling his story, Hughes demonstrates the powerful role fortune and luck play in today’s economy. Through the rocket ship rise of Facebook, Hughes came to consider how a select few can grow to be ultra-wealthy nearly overnight. He believes the same forces that made Facebook imaginable have made it harder for everyone else in The us to make ends meet.

To help people who find themselves struggling, Hughes proposes a simple, bold solution: a guaranteed income for working people, including unpaid caregivers and students, paid for by the one percent. The way Hughes sees it, a guaranteed income is the most powerful tool we need to combat poverty and stabilize The us’s middle class. Money―cold hard cash with no strings attached―gives people freedom, dignity, and the ability to climb the economic ladder.

A guaranteed income for working people is the big idea that’s missing in the national conversation. This book, grounded in Hughes’ personal experience, will start a frank conversation about how we earn in modern The us, how we will be able to combat income inequality, and in the long run, how we will be able to give everyone a fair shot.

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