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I cannot recommend offer-only enough. You know that thing you never get to do because it’s too competitive and it’s too painful to even try for fun because you’ve spent over ten thousand hours getting paid at the most .07 cents per hour to do it? Are you tired of doing free work for possible prestige? Possible opportunities on spec, but no
... See moreMaria Bamford • Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
The War on the Liberal Class - The Ideas Letter
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Death of the Follower & the Future of Creativity on the Web
m.youtube.comFor the background on credentialed precariat , here’s what I wrote in Chapter 4 of End Times : “Guy Standing, who injected the term ‘precariat’ into the public consciousness, sees degree holders as one of the precariat factions. This group
consists of people who go to college, promised by their parents, teachers and politicians that this will grant... See more
Revolt of the Credentialed Precariat
As artificial intelligence reconfigures every dimension of our societies—from labor markets to classrooms to newsrooms—we should remember the Luddites. Not as caricatures, but in the original sense: People who refuse to accept that the deployment of new technology should be dictated unilaterally by corporations or in cahoots with the government,... See more
We should all be Luddites | Brookings
As discussed in my column, there are cases where termination is entirely appropriate for those using their positions to espouse hateful or celebratory messages on the murder of Charlie Kirk. https://t.co/QNpgRxiXs4 This teacher is one such example. https://t.co/UsRoQ9tros
Jonathan Turleyx.comAccording to economic theory, at least, the last thing a profit-seeking firm is going to do is shell out money to workers they don’t really need to employ. Still, somehow, it happens.
David Graeber • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
News Layoffs Are the Latest Sign of Journalism’s Collapse
city-journal.orgI think the defining economic reality of the modern platform media world is that all the platforms realized that an infinite supply of teenage creators are cheaper to deal with than media companies or groups of media individuals or powerful creators. And I’m curious for your read on the number of YouTubers that you see retiring or taking a step... See more