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The legal system, including tort law and common law, is crucial for capitalism to function, as it allows for decentralized regulation akin to language development.

We have lower work rates than almost all of Europe. And it's in part because we're so mean to people who can't take a full-time job as is.

In European countries, the bigger factor for getting women to work is having the right to part-time jobs. The U.S. is missing a lot of part-time workers.

There's about 30 million workers in the U.S. who don't have access to paid sick leave. That is an easy change that could make a huge difference for people who are affected by it.

We're so painfully close, I think, at this point to unlocking physical labor and solving physical labor.

Universal access to paid sick leave could make a huge difference. In certain cities, they've found as much as a $3,000 a year difference in earnings for women without a college degree who have a child when she has access to sick leave.