# Jeff Booth - The Price of Tomorrow (Highlights)  ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/50622040) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/kindle **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Jeff Booth]] **Full Title**:: The Price of Tomorrow **Category**:: #books #readwise/books **Category Icon**:: 📚 **Highlighted**:: [[2025-04-17]] **Created**:: [[2025-04-19]] ## Highlights ### Preface - As my friend Thuan Pham, the chief technology officer of Uber, recently said to me over breakfast, “I am a firm believer that talent is distributed evenly around the world, but opportunities are not.” (Loc 79) ^878588288 ### Introduction: The End of Inflation - At the same time, we are seeing a massive rise in inequality: in the United States, the top 5 percent of the population now holds more than two-thirds of the wealth, while the remaining 95 percent of the population fights for their share of the other third. 1 Just three people— Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett— account for more wealth than 50 percent of the population. (Loc 163) ^878588290 #### The shrinking world of technology - Deflation, put simply, is when you get more for your money— just as inflation is when you get less for your money. (Loc 218) ^878588292 - There’s just one problem: if technology should be driving everything cheaper, why is life getting more expensive? (Loc 242) ^878588293