Winners Take All - Watch this video.
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I really enjoyed watching this Google talk given by Anand Giridharadas based on his book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World…
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Not Everyone Can Be a Barista or a CEO
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While it may, in some people’s opinion, take less skill to be a barista than a CEO (latte art not-withstanding) is it really a job just anyone can do?
Read MorePlaying Video Games Might Be a Job
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A common argument against government entitlements generally, but especially against the idea of Universal Basic Income, is that providing money to people for nothing reduces their incentive to work...
Read MoreYour Answer to "What Do You Do?" May Reveal You Need More Money
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How easily can you answer the dreaded “What do you do?”
The easier it is to describe your job, the less money you make...
Read MoreWe Have a Growth Problem
/We have a growth problem. And when I say “we" I mean both our population and our system and when I say “our system” I mean...
Read MoreSome People Want To Be Garbage Men
/We have a work problem. And it’s not that there are whole sectors of work that aren’t counted in economics calculations. And it’s not that robots are going to take our jobs. Those certainly are issues, but we also have a problem with how people choose or are placed into careers...
Read MoreNot Everything Should Be Run Like a Business
/After a recent expose by Mother Jones on corruption, abuses, and waste in privately run federal prisons, the DOJ announced they’ll end privately run federal prisons. This is amazing, but only the first of many steps to end the cycle of for-profit, mass incarceration in this country.
It’s also, I hope, the first wake up call toward the total realization that not everything should be run like a business...
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