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What Decides How Much AI Changes the World
Incentive systems and entrenched interests keep making AI forecasts wrong.
 • Abi Olvera
The working class has its own pride. Not everyone wants to enter elite circles.
I wanted into elite circles badly enough to take being looked down on, and to leave home for good. Many people wouldn't.
 • Abi Olvera
How Poor People Buy Cars
Elite circles have their own cultural knowledge. So does the bottom 40%. Here's some of mine.
 • Abi Olvera
A No-Regrets AI Agenda for Workers and Low-Income People
Thirteen things worth doing to make Americans’ lives more resilient regardless of how AI impacts labor.
 • Abi Olvera
We accidentally made it really hard to open a daycare
One city allowed daycares on just 4 percent of its land. Until we fix rules like these, subsidies will mostly benefit the better-off families who can…
 • Abi Olvera
How to cut suicide rates, healthcare costs, crime, and prices. The gatekeeping problem in 30% of US jobs.
The rules about who is legally allowed to do which jobs are one of the most consequential policy levers most people have never heard of.
 • Abi Olvera and Alicia Plemmons
Cars often keep people poor. Waymo could help.
The poorest fifth of American families spend 38% of their income on a car. The breakdowns and road deaths that fall hardest on them are just the cost of…
 • Abi Olvera
Effective Altruism focused on bednets while a malaria vaccine was stuck for 23 years. The case for Abundance.
Functional governance and democracy helps many EA cause areas. A thousand small government failures compound into civilizational risk.
 • Abi Olvera
11 Fixable Things that Make Life Harder for the Elderly, the Sick, and the Poor
Making it cheaper to be old, sick, or fragile in America. An abundance playbook.
 • Abi Olvera
How to Make Daycare, Healthcare, and Housing Cheaper: An Abundance Playbook
A running list of state and local rules that raise prices on the biggest line items in a family budget, and what to do about them.
 • Abi Olvera
DC required daycare workers to get degrees. The news only talked to those who stayed.
I'm the child of a daycare worker. The women who left didn't get a story.
 • Abi Olvera
We scrutinize Uber because we've heard of it, not because it's worse than other low-wage work
Outrage is well-meaning. But it comes from taking a narrow sample of low-wage work, being surprised at its nature, then blaming the most visible…
 • Abi Olvera
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