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Mescaline CatechismOn Chris Hayes’ show, Up, William Black is criticizing the recent JOBS Act. It seems like the US Congress is legislating to repeat the same thing that happened in the debt market, but this time with respect to company start-ups. They are rolling back some of the post-Enron regulations which were meant to protect investors. [...]
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US Capitalism: Off the Cliff!
Thursday 5 April 2012
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Steve Jobs’ Jobs and Bottom-Feeder Capitalism
Saturday 10 March 2012
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This post was originally written on 20 February 2012. Like an increasing number of posts on this blog, it sat in the drafts folder until I decided to push it out as-is! The mightly Bill Black does it again, over at The Real news, this time looking at Steve Jobs and Apple. Bill points out [...]
Brain Teasers at Bankster Job Interviews
Sunday 22 January 2012
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The Guardian’s Comments section is running an interesting series of interviews with people in the finance industry. This particular one is about the artificial tests in the banks’ jobs interviews. (There’s also another one about being a thankless, overworked intern.) Look at the tests they have to undergo. They do write mathematical tests, though their [...]
Precarity: Which University Programs Are Worth Doing!
Friday 30 December 2011
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Is there anything worth doing at a university/college, anymore? For the precarity generation, even the professional degree programs are worthless. The BAs (Bachelor of Arts) never amounted to much, anyway. A few of them led to this and that, but most offered no clear path to a known destination. Graduate studies (and the distant prospect [...]
What Jobs Are Left?
Wednesday 21 December 2011
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“creating jobs is not an essential business function, only making money is“. John Kozy. I just heard, on Stephen Colbert, that CNN is laying off 50 editors and photojournalists because it is relying on iReport! Not that the death of magazine/journalism/etc is , uh, news. But, seriously, what sort of jobs are left anymore? Music [...]
Little by Little, the Look of the Country Changes
Tuesday 13 December 2011
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Every time I watch the film Hud, I can’t help but think that Melvyn Douglas’s character, Homer, is going on about doing the right thing, while standing on land we took from Native Americans. But his words make me think, too, of what has happened to the US (and so to the world) over the [...]
Barefoot College. Precarity. Charity Businesses.
Monday 12 December 2011
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It may not obvious immediately, but, to me, this is the intersection of many of my thoughts with respect to education/schooling; precarity and the end of employment; and aid/charity as a business. More on this later. Note that there is not much difference between what these women do, and what your local Best Buy, or [...]
Now, Even a Degree Is of No Use!
Wednesday 7 December 2011
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They used to tell you to get a “college” degree. Now that even that fraud bears no fruit, they blame you for getting yourself into debt with a useless degree. The thing is though, even professional degrees are mostly useless!
Occupy The Status Quo
Tuesday 29 November 2011
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“So we struggle, in our own humble way, to destroy the United States!” (See 1:20 to 1:50 of the documentary Making Sense of the Sixties:) I try not to cut people down for trying, but I can’t help but observe that Occupy Wall St’s 99% do not want fundamental change; they want only the status [...]
Living on $610 a month.
Tuesday 29 November 2011
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Headline: “Surrey MLA Brar pledges to live on $610 a month”. I have not RTFAed (Read The Fuckin Article), but the headline made me think: Living on $610 for 1 month is not going to give you a full taste of living on that much _every_ month. The first month, you are going to have [...]
