Highlights
If you’re unemployed, it’s not because there isn’t any work
(16 August 2012)
Invaders from Mars
(December 2010)
Laziness Does Not Exist
Art is useless, and so am I
Plaidophile: The commoditization of free time
2020
Musicians And Other Artists To Get €325 Per Week In Universal Basic Income Scheme
(18 November 2020)
A B.C. research project gave homeless people $7,500 each — the results were 'beautifully surprising'
(7 October 2020)
Traditional publishing faces print distribution and ebook pricing ‘train wreck,’ says Kristine Kathryn Rusch
(10 September 2020)
Why Bertrand Russell's argument for idleness is more relevant than ever
(5 August 2020)
Why Are We So Quick To Scrutinise How Low-Income Families Spend Their Money?
(16 June 2020)
On Odious Debt
(29 May 2020)
Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being
(6 May 2020)
Japan to Fund Firms to Shift Production Out of China
(8 April 2020)
2019
The Psychological Impacts Of Poverty, Digested
(3 December 2019)
Microsoft Japan's four-day week trial boosts productivity by 40%
Empty trains on the modern Silk Road: when Belt and Road interests don’t align
(23 August 2019)
Trump’s recession risk rises
(14 August 2019)
Baoshang Bank collapse threatens China's economy and may trigger central bank response
(28 June 2019)
Paper-towel dispenser with a EULA prohibiting rival brands of paper
(19 June 2019)
Uber is upset that its underpaid drivers are gaming the app
(June 2019)
The cost to Uber and Lyft if drivers were employees
(14 June 2019)
Amazon can automatically fire warehouse workers for 'time off task'
(April 2019)
2017-2018
Japan's Hometown Tax
(19 October 2018)
Cash Free (also Alex Schroeder)
(26 July 2018)
Alex Schroeder on Capitalism
(24 June 2018)
Bike Share Oversupply in China: Huge Piles of Abandoned and Broken Bicycles
(March 2018)
Danish Companies Seek to Hire, but Everyone’s Already Working
(28 February 2017)
2014-2015
Analyzing Budweiser's Hypocritical, Anti-Craft Beer Super Bowl Ad
(February 2015)
The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind
(12 December 2014)
Recession in Russia, revolt in Venezuela? The knock-on effects of tumbling oil prices
(16 October 2014)
I studied engineering, not English. I still can’t find a job.
(27 August 2014)
Shocking Picture of What Life Will Look Like When You Can’t Afford to Retire
(August 2014)
New Report Challenges The Whole 'IP Intensive Industries Are Doing Well Because Of Strong IP' Myth
(8 August 2014)
Why to avoid advertising as a business model
(15 June 2014)
Study: Millennials Poised to Shake Up Corporate America
(28 May 2014)
10 Reasons You Have To Quit Your Job In 2014
(7 April 2014)
Why every digital marketing agency should try running their own sex shop
(27 February 2014)
5 reasons why you shouldn’t work too hard
(21 February 2014)
Almost a million working parents forced to go hungry to pay the rent
The Passion Gospel
(10 February 2014)
2013
The Rise of Invisible Work
(October 2013)
This Isn't Capitalism — It's Growthism, and It's Bad for Us
(October 2013)
Why Talented Creatives Are Leaving Your Shitty Agency
(September 2013)
The Sharing Economy: A Conversation with Neal Gorenflo
(May 2013)
Dollar could be in danger as the world’s currency
(May 2013)
Europe's Record Youth Unemployment: The Scariest Graph in the World Just Got Scarier
(May 2013)
How Austerity Kills
(13 May 2013)
La production de pétrole du groupe Total décline pour la 8ème année
(13 February 2013)
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners And Modern Management
(16 January 2013)
Programmer Interrupted
(January 2013)
2012
What is actually going on in Iceland
(29 December 2012)
More Young Americans Are Homeless
(19 December 2012)
The Goldman Sachs Project to take over Europe nearly complete
(26 November 2012)
Japanese Stocks? Yes, They Really Think So
(13 November 2012)
Manuel Castells on the rise of alternative economic cultures
(31 October 2012)
Why there’s less high-frequency trading
(15 October 2012)
Productivity for what?
(1 October 2012)
an open letter in response to amy, re: musicians, volunteering, and the freedom to choose. - Amanda Palmer
(13 September 2012)
Why I Volunteered To Play With Amanda Palmer
(13 September 2012)
Future of Work: Custom Printed Bodies and the End of the 9-to-5 Job
(4 September 2012)
Unsorted
Google Loved Me, Until I Pointed Out Everything That Sucked About It
Orange Executives Found Responsible for 35 Employee Deaths by Suicide
South Yorkshire Police concerns over 'desperation' thefts
Basic income is paving a path to freedom in Kenya
Uber co-founder Garrett Camp quietly shells out $71 million for Beverly Hills mansion
Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk—they come from families with money
Death Star Economics
Companies are not your friends
Where Are These “Golden Years” We Were Promised?
Cars Make Your Life More Expensive, Even If You Don't Have One
Welcome to the Bullshit Economy
Almost a million working parents forced to go hungry to pay the rent
35 Statistics About The Working Poor In America That Will Blow Your Mind
Rich people are hoarding cash, and wealth managers are getting frustrated
France experiments with paying people to cycle to work
Basic Income: Canada’s Trial Had a Huge Effect on People’s Health
End of oil boom threatens Norway's welfare model
Cropmobster: Connecting the Dots Between Farms, Food Waste and Hunger
23 Food Sharing Projects That Are Disrupting Hunger
Company's Amazing Reply to a Raging Customer Has Fans and Orders Pouring In
Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields
The Economics of Entitlement: Does Money Make You Mean?
I was a quadrillionaire in Zimbabwe, but could barely afford to buy bread
Trickle-Down Economics Must Die, Long Live Grow-Up Economics
25 US Mega Corporations: Where They Rank If They Were Countries
Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise
Dismantle Corporate Power
Am I the Face of the New American Middle Class?
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance
Nothing Fails Like Success
Half of Americans Are Effectively Poor Now. What The?
A New Era: From Occupation to Workers' Control
How Workers Laid Off from a Chicago Factory Took It Over Themselves
GMB launches Scotland's first sex workers' union
When Mr. Robot is Your Boss: Working under algorithms
We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.
Learn to say NO
Company Lacks Manpower To Complete Newest Round Of Layoffs | The Onion
In praise of laziness
Motivation and Reward
Productivity is dangerous
The Management Myth
(June 2006)