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the more one’s work benefits others, the less one tends to be paid for it.
David Graeber • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it,” the late anthropologist and activist David Graeber wrote, in 2018.
Jia Tolentino • Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?
“One of the great tragedies of the last five years is that many of the world’s smartest people are no longer sharing their ideas in public” – David Perell
Anthony Pompliano • Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes
Yglesias’s newsletter, “Slow Boring,” has a readership that includes more than six thousand paid subscribers, and he is making twenty-seven thousand dollars a month
Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
Braintrust serves the increasing demand for freelancers - they can aggregate the demand because it's a no-fee model. We can finally unbundle the trillions of dollars in the W2 stack.
Li Jin • Braintrust’s Founders on How to Run a Decentralised Marketplace
The first good thing about Substack is there’s no canceling. A young, talented heterodox thinker doesn’t have to worry that less talented conformists in his or her organization will use ideology as an outlet for their resentments. The next good thing is there are no ads, just subscription revenue. Online writers don’t have to chase clicks by writin... See more
David Brooks • Opinion | The Future of Nonconformity (Published 2020)
George Stigler, a thirty-five-year-old economist at the University of Minnesota. Inflation had diluted the 40-cent minimum wage, and people were calling for an increase to 60 or even 75 cents an hour, which translates to $9.51 and $11.88 in June 2022 dollars. “Economists have not been very outspoken on this type of legislation,” Stigler wrote. “It
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