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bloombergToo Many Jobs Feel Meaningless Because They Are
A new book argues that work that is of no real value has proliferated. No wonder productivity is stagnant.
doistWhat Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work
Isolation, anxiety, and depression in the remote workplace and what we’re doing about it.
NYTimesWhat Good Is ‘Community’ When Someone Else Makes All the Rules?
You can tell a lot about the cultural status of capitalism by how we refer to people who buy stuff. “Customer,” with its implicit deference — its suggestion that the buyer is always right — is now a relic of a bygone era. “Client” is formal and reserved for professional relationships. “Consumer,” with its air of piggish, Pac-Man voracity, is the slightly dehumanizing moniker most of us grew up with, but that was some time ago, before the rise of the brand as a cultic family. Now everyone who buys or uses or even just cares about a product or service has been collectively upgraded to something more ephemeral, almost spiritual, a loose association of souls brought together in one churchlike congregation: a “community.”
guardianThe rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work
Using what one expert calls a ‘Wizard of Oz technique’, some companies keep their reliance on humans a secret from investors
LATIMESToo poor to retire and too young to die
At the wise age of 79, Dolores Westfall knows food shopping on an empty stomach is a fool’s errand. On her way to the grocery store last May, she pulled into the Town & Country Family Restaurant to take the edge off her appetite.
MediumThe Next Powerful Political Constituency: The Millions Marginalized by Autonomy
Job losses, pay cuts, and ineffective retraining could mimic the trajectory of the Rust Belt
VoxA woman had a baby. Then her hospital charged her $39.35 to hold it.
This is a bill for a recent labor and delivery service in the United States. And it includes a $39.35 charge for holding the baby after delivery. Really.
Ars Technica“Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” Goldman Sachs analysts ask
Analyst report notes that Gilead’s hep C cure will make less than $4 billion this year.
bbcPoor mental health at work 'widespread'
Poor mental health affects half of all employees, according to a survey of 44,000 people carried out by the mental health charity Mind.
NYTimesWhy Prosperity Has Increased but Happiness Has Not
Our well-being is local and relative — if you live in a struggling area and your status is slipping, even if you are relatively comfortable, you are probably at least a bit miserable.
BUZZFEEDThese Photos From a Chinese Factory Are Haunting
Photojournalist Kevin Frayer traveled to Mongolia with Getty Images and captured some haunting pictures.
NYTIMESThe Lonely Death of George Bell
Each year around 50,000 people die in New York, some alone and unseen. Yet death even in such forlorn form can cause a surprising amount of activity. Sometimes, along the way, a life’s secrets are revealed. // This might not always be a good way to live (that is, in solitude), but according to Buddhist teachings, it can be a good way to die. We die alone anyway, and dying without other people's laying their trips around us might help us stay focused in a moment when most people can't really help, but can possibly annoy.
QuilletteHow ‘Limbic Capitalism’ Preys on Our Addicted Brains
Limbic capitalism was itself a product of cultural evolution. It was a late development in a long historical process that saw the accelerating spread of novel pleasures and their twinned companions of vice and addiction. The pleasures, vices and addictions most conspicuously associated with limbic capitalism were those of intoxication.
YouTubeNew Tech Start-Up Bubble
When he lost his job at Newsweek, Lyons - who had long reported on Silicon Valley companies - accepted an offer from HubSpot, a red-hot Boston startup, as a "marketing fellow". Watch the talk to learn what happened next.
TheAtlanticThe Cheapest Generation
Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy. There is also a discussion on YCombinator's Hacker News about the article.
thehillWe’re headed for a future where only the wealthy can enjoy nature
Will the next millennials — those born in a thousand years — be better off than those of today? Will we leave them a world they will be thankful for and appreciate, or will they look at history as a dark reminder of the greed and short-sightedness that left them an earth depleted, a place where nature exists only in the walled-off estates of the very wealthy?
NYTimesThe Way Middle-Aged White Men Work Now
Before he goes to sleep, between 11 and midnight, Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, typically checks in by e-mail with the same reporter: Mike Allen of Politico, who is also the first reporter Pfeiffer corresponds with after he wakes up at 4:20.
macleansHow the growing gig economy is making life harder for North American workers
A journalist argues the new climate has led to people without things like unemployment insurance, retirement savings and a feeling of security.
telegraphOne in three heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor mortality ratings, survey shows
For his new book The Naked Surgeon, Dr Nashef anonymously polled heart surgeons asking them if they had ever boosted their ratings by refusing to operate on patients who they feared might die in theatre.
amazonGive People Money
How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World.
cjrFreelancers are precarious. When should they push back?
THE WASHINGTON POST killed my story over a retweeted criticism. They told me I couldn’t pitch them for six months. Then they told me I might have an agenda against the paper. Then they went silent. Seven weeks later, when they learned I was writing about the incident for CJR, they told me they were terribly sorry; it should never have happened. In the pantheon of freelance horror stories, it’s hardly the most egregious. In my privileged position, I pushed back, I leaned in, I secured a commission and got my apology. Still, what does this say about the precarious state of freelance life?
YouTubeRobert Reich On 'Saving Capitalism'
Supposedly salvageable capitalism of late capitalism. // Robert Reich discusses 'Saving Capitalism,' the Netflix documentary based on his book about how the Washington-Wall Street alliance isn't serving the public and why citizen activism gives him hope.
slateWhy Is It So Hard to Quit Amazon? Because Shopping Is Labor.
Prime has helped overworked and underpaid Americans stretch their money and time. No wonder it’s so hard to quit.
thenationMy Best Friend Lost His Life to the Gig Economy
Pablo Avendano was a food-delivery courier struggling to make ends meet. Then he was killed delivering an order.
nytimesAmericans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not.
U.S. unemployment is down and jobs are going unfilled. But for people without much education, the real question is: Do those jobs pay enough to live on?
YouTubeHow Silicon Valley Created America’s Largest Homeless Camp
Living in “The Jungle” means learning to live in fear. Especially after dark, when some people get violent. The 68-acre homeless camp in South San Jose is considered the largest in the United States. It's a lawless place.
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