Alissa Quart Quotes

Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.

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• Teaching
• Responsibilities
• Requirements

The effect of robotization would be profoundly different if, say, truckers possessed their own autonomous vehicles rather than a corporation controlling them all.

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• Corporation
• Truckers
• Robotization

Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.'

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• Brand
• Grave
• Cradle

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

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• Wealth
• Inequality
• Downside

Like politics, all status is ultimately local - people compare themselves to those they live near.

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• People
• Compare
• Status

There's no better example of how to lead a difficult employee than to have a child. You have another kind of knowledge from your children that's actually applicable outside of childbearing.

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• Child
• Lead
• Employee

The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.

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• Education
• Defined
• Aspirations

If we don't at least try to make the future more equitable, most of us will left with simply scraps.

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• Future
• Scraps
• Equitable

Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high.

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• Children
• Succeed
• Preparing

Crowdfunding companies like GoFundMe are in themselves not evil. But the fact that we have to rely on them to pay for our basics is.

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• Evil
• Companies
• GoFundMe

Precariousness is not just a working-class thing.

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• Working
• Thing
• Precariousness