seregine | Shared With: Everyone - May 07 2008 | people, society, business, history, work, carreer, jobs
How industrialists created the consumer culture to keep people occupied. Baa.
It's encouraging to know that there's plenty of room for improvement. Our world is a product of dirty historical conditions, from apes through tyrants to masterminds. We can clean them up to make a better world possible.
Quoted: The urge to buy is as manufactured as the stuff you have heaped in your shopping basket.
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 01 2007 | people, career, jobs, economics
Marc Andreesen's advice matches my own philosophy, so I like it a lot.
Quoted: I believe you should look at your career as a portfolio of jobs/roles/opportunities. Each job that you take, each role that you choose to fill, each opportunity you pursue, will have a certain potential return -- the benefits you can get from taking it. Each job will also have a certain risk profile -- the things that could go wrong.
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A link to a link.
From Crimeth.Inc:
Our favorite radio show, This American Life, recently did a hour show examining the current mortgage crisis— the straw that broke the camel’s back and triggered a global financial crisis, the end of which is nowhere in sight. As the U.S. stumbles forward deeper and deeper into a recession, it would behoove those of us who don’t understand what has happened to take a minute to learn about the economic process—which was truly not a major aberration from business as usual—behind the credit collapse that has many economists warning of a new economic depression.
As usual, TAL makes the dry subject matter absolutely fascinating and entertaining, interviewing victims and perpetrators at every level of the travesty, and as they say:
We explain it all to you. What does the housing crisis have to do with the turmoil on Wall Street? Why did banks make half-million dollar loans to people without jobs or income? And why is everyone talking so much about the 1930s? It all comes back to the Giant Pool of Money.
Listen to the show here, for free, by clicking on the ‘Full Episode’ link. For those looking for more details, another radio favorite of ours, Fresh Air, has some more perspectives here, and here. And of course, Wikipedia comes through with 12,000 words on the subject.
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