Archiv ‘Gesellschaft’
Sonntag, 13. November 2011
Das Ende der amerikanischen Konsumgesellschaft wurde vor 40 Jahren besiegelt
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Starting in the late 1970s, the middle class began to weaken… The middle class nonetheless continued to spend, at first enabled by the flow of women into the work force. (In the 1960s only 12 percent of married women with young children were working for pay; by the late 1990s, 55 percent were.) When that way of life stopped generating enough income, Americans went deeper into debt. From the late 1990s to 2007, the typical household debt grew by a third. As long as housing values continued to rise it seemed a painless way to get additional money.
Quelle: A Zombie Economy Following Unfaithful Shepherds
Tags: Geschichte, Konsumgesellschaft
Labels: Gesellschaft, USA
Sonntag, 13. November 2011
Wieso meine Mutter Angst vor dem Computer hat
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This, in a nutshell, describes perfectly the way I see most non-technical folk relate to computers. They’ve just been hit so many times by software that makes no sense to them that they approach every task with fear and uncertainty—instead of making users more productive (and, therefore, happier), software makes them more depressed.
Quelle: Dashes, spaces, and incompetence
Tags: Software, Usability
Labels: Gesellschaft
Sonntag, 4. September 2011
Vom Model T-Bauer zum Burgerflipper
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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
Samstag, 3. September 2011
Auch die Finanz- und Schuldenkrise wird die Reichen noch reicher machen
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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
Tags: Finanzkrise, Kapitalismus
Labels: Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft
Sonntag, 19. Juni 2011
Wo man als Programmierer wirklich anheuern sollte …
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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
Tags: Ausbildung, Bildung, Programmierung
Labels: Arbeit, Gesellschaft
Freitag, 17. Juni 2011
Wieso wir von der Globalisierung lange nichts mitbekommen haben
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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
Tags: China
Labels: Arbeit, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft
Samstag, 4. Juni 2011
Das Rad immer wieder neu erfinden. Heute: Hellbanning.
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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?
Tags: Internet, Mensch, Psychologie, Social Media
Labels: Gesellschaft
