wealth disparity Idle rich baffled by poor people's distaste for dangerous, low-paying jobs Mark Frauenfelder
employment December jobs report: Women of color lost nearly 10 times as many jobs as men gained Thom Dunn
sponsored It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job of Disrupting the Racist Drug War Boing Boing
elections This Thanksgiving, don't have a political argument, have a "structured organizing conversation" Cory Doctorow
class war Uber general counsel threatens California: pass a law that makes drivers into employees and we'll spend $60m on a ballot initiative to overturn it Cory Doctorow
Business Swedes are entitled to six months' leave to start a business, look after a sick relative, or study Cory Doctorow
politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin
economics Modern Monetary Theory: why government spending isn't like household checkbooks Cory Doctorow
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class war GDP vs human thriving: a "healthy" economy means debt-haunted people, desperately searching for housing Cory Doctorow