Posts tagged economy
Posts tagged economy
All over the world, workers are paid pennies to do menial online tasks in a largely unregulated, multimillion-dollar industry. Welcome to the Internet’s factory floor.
East Bay Express || August 1, 2012
Will the career waiters of Gen Y occupy the service industry?
GOOD || Spring 2012
Wherein I go home, watch public servants get axed, visit the warehouse of unbearable sorrow, hang with jobless thirtysomethings living in abandoned homes, and consider whether my generation is flat-out screwed.
Mother Jones || November/December 2011
Prepaid cards are growing into a new kind of bank for the underserved, outside the boundaries of the financial system.
The Alicia Patterson Foundation || Aug. 18, 2011
On speculators, markets, and the future economy.
Lapham’s Quarterly || September 20, 2011
We can try to keep realizing westward, but unfortunately, some things are simply finite. Would that the ownership of property — of land, of moving water — were as simple as what “Why Rent?” ads or political rhetoric about home ownership imply.
The Millions || August 2, 2011
Tech Crunch || April 10, 2011
Harry Reid says prostitution is bad for Nevada’s economy. Is he right?
Slate || February 24, 2011
What you’ll see on the following pages is hard to misinterpret: We have big issues, but the U.S. is in sounder shape than Apple was in 1997, when it lost a billion dollars. That’s the year Steve Jobs returned as CEO and took extreme measures, including agreeing to make Internet Explorer the Mac’s default browser. Jobs also got Microsoft to buy $150 million in nonvoting Apple shares—a lifeline for a company that, according to Jobs himself, was 90 days from bankruptcy court. Apple is now the second most valuable company in the world.
Business Week || February 24, 2011
(Source: businessweek.com, via longreads)
Valentine’s Day is big business for many struggling nations.
The Daily || February 14, 2011
