That's why I wrote this book, which is about how to reorganize the economy for the future when technology brings about destructive changes to what we used to consider high-income work.

这就是我写这本书的原因，这本书主要讨论的是在未来社会，当技术给我们曾经认为高收入的工作带来破坏性的变化的时候，应该如何重新规划未来的经济结构。

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Yet how can we have an incipient global inflationary process when the US economy and those of other significant high-income countries are slowing down?

然而，在美国和其它重要高收入国家的经济正在放缓之际，我们是如何开始陷入全球通胀的呢？

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And they fret that Mr Obama's tax hikes for the rich, who already pay nearly all the income taxes in America, would have to be so high that the economy would suffer.

他们忧心忡忡，奥巴马向富人大征其税，而富人已经支付了差不多全美国的所得税，如此大幅加税，恐怕会殃及美国经济。

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That is because with the lower tax rates, incomes boomed along with the economy, and high income taxpayers had the incentives to pull their money out of tax shelters and invest it in the real economy, fueling the boom while increasing their reported incomes.

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