人形机器人价格大幅下降至4000美元左右的水平，这一令人惊讶的事实标志着机器人技术正在从专业领域向消费市场普及。这不仅可能加速机器人技术在日常生活中的应用，还可能引发新的产业革命，类似于个人电脑和智能手机的发展轨迹，值得密切关注这一趋势如何重塑劳动力市场。

тут мне кажется значение не только техническое, но и экономическое: используя бесплатные программы с открытым исходным кодом делает возможным не только сам технический доступ, но говорит о том, что цена не измениться и будет доступ к системе даже при снижении дохода

On the erosion of middle class America. Poverty line is around 140k if actual costs taken into account. The 1960s benchmark assumed cost of food to be 1/3 of overall costs. Now it's 7% or so, meaning 1/15 of overall costs. This pushes up the poverty line to 5 times the level used, or some 150k USD pa

Example of a proxy being used as 'measurement' and the assumptions in a proxy never re-evaluated.

Thomson, A., Robinson, K., & Vallée-Tourangeau, G. (2016). The 5As: A practical taxonomy for the determinants of vaccine uptake. Vaccine, 34(8), 1018–1024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.11.065

Goodman, J. D. (2020, August 31). A Quick Virus Test? Sure, If You Can Afford It. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/nyregion/rapid-coronavirus-test.html

Shama, S., & Ikbal, J. (2020). EDUCATION DURING A PANDEMIC: A feasibility study of online classes in Bangladesh to counteract potential study gaps caused by COVID-19 related lockdowns [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/p6mws

Except that adopting OER does demonstrably increase the number of students who take your class, which measurably improves learning FOR THEM.

Or hunger, or working full-time.

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