Zappos eliminates manager role, goes to flat structure; 14% of employees leave (businessinsider.com).
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R.J. Hillhouse (who broke the Hersh story years ago). |
Congratulations, Class of 2015: You’re the Most Indebted Ever (blogs.wsj.com).
Job Crapification: "Mid-wage and high-wage jobs accounted for 79% of jobs lost during the recession [but] as of August 2012, they represented only 42% of those created during the recovery. The gap was filled by low-wage jobs: only 21% of jobs lost during the recession were those making less than $13.83 an hour, but they make up the majority of new jobs created during the recovery." April jobs report promising but core problem is still income inequality (theguardian.com).
Internet Economics 101: Spotify unable to turn a profit despite revenues of $1 million per employee per year and no manufacturing expense. Spotify's net losses grow to $197 million (theregister.co..uk).
Almost 2 million Americans make less than $2 per day; 7.1 million children live in deep poverty (family income less than half the poverty threshold). Why So Many Americans Are Trapped in ‘Deep Poverty’ (thefiscaltimes.com).
Meanwhile, take out a $100 payday loan, owe $3600 (theguardian.com).
Not exactly news but still startling: The world's 80 richest people are worth more than the bottom 50% of humanity (globalresearch.ca). This is based on Forbes billionaire data, which omits dictators and monarchs. Hence it very likely understates, not overstates, the wealth of the wealthiest.
"There's a reason depression and its precarious cousin, anxiety, are the dominant political modes of late capitalism." An angry population is hard to govern; a depressed population is easy (newstatesman.com).
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