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Nobody had warned her that the figure to pay attention to when she was being interviewed by Igor, the head of consumer outreach at Renewable Solutions, was not the “thirty or forty thousand dollars” in commissions that he foresaw her earning in her very first year but the $21,000 base salary he was offering, or that a salesman as persuasive as Igor
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These companies are embracing new consumers with human needs—from affordable nutrition and lower-cost health care to everyday products that fit the much lower annual incomes of most of the world.
R. Paul Herman • The HIP Investor
Hours reductions serve multiple purposes.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
The model of business success in the millennial era is that of dismantling social structures to suck up cash from whatever corners of life can still be exploited.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Together, they are the backdrop to a vanishing way of life.
Michael Meyer • The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
moneymaking opportunities.