For thousands of years, women have been saddled with the expectation that they perform labour for free to benefit the people around them. Put in position as caregivers, managers of households, and more, they’ve kept family units functional without compensation for generations. That’s something that started to be challenged in a more meaningful way in …
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Snoring Wheatgrass
Jon Gertner at the New York Times: The Rise and Fall of the GDP For decades, academics and gadflies have been critical of the measure, suggesting that it is an inaccurate and misleading gauge of prosperity. Steven Levy at Wired: Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker’s Library (via Anna) Stuffed with landmark …
Is There A Point At Which the Paywall Model Is Successful?
A newspaper puts up a paywall. Three months later, there are 35 subscribers. Too bad someone just spent a small fortune acquiring that newspaper, eh? There’s a lot of debate about the paywall model, and whether or not it works, and where, and why. As a creative professional, I’m growing more and more concerned with …
