Archiv ‘Gesellschaft’

Sonntag, 4. September 2011

Vom Model T-Bauer zum Burgerflipper

Over five million manufacturing jobs have disappeared from America in the last 30 years. But over 30 million lower-wage service industry jobs have been handed out. GM fell. Wal-Mart rose. This fundamentally changed the character of the American economy, and probably of American society.

The spike in unemployment during the GFC is a side-effect of this structural change in the economy. A service-based economy is a consumption-based economy. A consumption-based economy is a debt-based economy. When debt loads – government, household, and business – are unbearable, consumption falls. Unemployment rises as people spend less money.

Quelle: Distortions and Imbalances

Labels: Gesellschaft, USA, Wirtschaft

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Samstag, 3. September 2011

Auch die Finanz- und Schuldenkrise wird die Reichen noch reicher machen

Atkinson examined the financial crises that swept Asia in the 1990s as well as those that afflicted several Nordic countries in the same decade. In most cases, he says, the middle class suffered depressed income for a long time after the crisis, while the top 1 percent were able to protect themselves—using their cash reserves to buy up assets very cheaply once the market crashed, and emerging from crisis with a significantly higher share of assets and income than they’d had before.

Quelle: Can the Middle Class Be Saved? – Magazine – The Atlantic

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Labels: Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft

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Sonntag, 19. Juni 2011

Wo man als Programmierer wirklich anheuern sollte …

People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to advance those disciplines.

Quelle: Advice From An Old Programmer — Learn Python The Hard Way, 2nd Edition

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Labels: Arbeit, Gesellschaft

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Freitag, 17. Juni 2011

Wieso wir von der Globalisierung lange nichts mitbekommen haben

Globalisation led to lower prices for consumer goods. That offset the sting of lower wage growth; the result of losing all those high-wage, highly skilled manufacturing jobs. In simpler terms, the average salary may not have gone up much in real terms over the last 30 years, but cheap imports from Asia made up part of the difference.

Quelle: Buy When There’s Yogurt in the Streets

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Labels: Arbeit, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft

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Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2011

State of the Union: Silicon Valley Startups

I think it’ll be sweet to instantly share pictures with my friends in cool new ways.  But I know it’s not a huge problem for Henderson and Rebecca.  It’s just not an issue that affects them.  I’m concerned about how many of us are working on problems that just don’t matter all that much to the rest of the world.

Quelle: Meanwhile, just East of Silicon Valley, in Tupelo Mississippi… – humbledMBA

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Labels: Gesellschaft

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Samstag, 4. Juni 2011

Das Rad immer wieder neu erfinden. Heute: Hellbanning.

Noch nie gehört, aber schlichtweg genial:

I’ve always associated hellbanning with the Something Awful Forums. Per this amazing MetaFilter discussion, it turns out the roots of hellbanning go much deeper – all the way back to an early Telnet BBS system called Citadel, where the „problem user bit“ was introduced around 1986. Like so many other things in social software, it keeps getting reinvented over and over again by clueless software developers who believe they’re the first programmer smart enough to figure out how people work. It’s supported in most popular forum and blog software, as documented in the Drupal Cave module.

Quelle: Coding Horror: Suspension, Ban or Hellban?

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Labels: Gesellschaft

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Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2011

Tiger Mums produzieren Paper Tigers

Genialer Artikel, den man gleich anschliessend auf Amy Chuas Lobeshymne auf Tiger Mums lesen muss. Die Kernfrage:

How do you undo eighteen years of a Chinese upbringing?

Quelle: Paper Tigers

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Labels: Arbeit, Gesellschaft, USA

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Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2010

The Last Americanos

Besides, illegal immigrants are to be treasured. They are the last real Americans. Like the first ones, they brave hardship and danger to get here. The first immigrants crossed unforgiving seas in small barques. The last cross a hard border, patrolled by drug gangs and border police. Like Puritans, they come without passports…without work permits…with nothing more than the shirts on their backs and a desire to work. They worship their own gods, and otherwise ask only to be left alone. Do some turn to delinquency, felony and voting? Of course, they do…they’re only human too. But most get along passably well without the benefit of US social welfare legislation, democracy or larceny.

Quelle: The Last Americanos

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Labels: Gesellschaft, USA, Wirtschaft

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Sonntag, 19. September 2010

Integration als Hol- wie Bringschuld

Das werden die rechtsbürgerlichen Exponenten nicht gerne hören:

Lotsen für Neuankömmlinge, geringe Arbeitslosigkeit, guter Verdienst: In Schweden geht es Migranten gut, weil man Integration dort anders versteht als im Rest Europas. Nämlich nicht nur als Verpflichtung des Einwanderers, sondern auch als Bringschuld der Gesellschaft.

Quelle: Integration in Schweden: Warme Jacken am Flughafen – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten – Politik

Doch im Grunde sollte man über so etwas gar nicht lange nachdenken müssen, das gehört zum Allgemeinwissen. Aber nicht dass man mich nun falsch versteht: Fördern, aber eben auch fordern. Nur eine Kombination daraus führt auch hierzulande zu einer weiterhin funktionierenden Gesellschaft.

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Dienstag, 14. September 2010

Externer Dienstleister für die Bundesverwaltung

If you can’t get a government job, you try to work as a contractor for the government… or in some government-supported, or government- favored, industry, such as the military or the universities. Or you get your representatives to get you a tax break, or a subsidy, or a grant…

Quelle: US Real Estate Market Sits in the Waiting Room

Lustig wird es immer dann, wenn Beamtensöhne und -töchter vereint mit Zöglingen solcher Dienstleister gegen den ausufernden Staat wettern. Wer anders als der Staat hat ihnen das tägliche Brot und die Ausbildung bezahlt?

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Labels: Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft

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