Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Bad Business Ideas

Being gainfully employed is about more than money. We need to consider what will give our lives purpose and connection in the age of automation.
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OUR ROBOT UNDERLORDS
Is A Life Without Work One We'd Want To Live?
theguardian.com
Being gainfully employed is about more than money. We need to consider what will give our lives purpose and connection in the age of automation.
STUPEFIED
How Work Life Makes Us Stupid
aeon.co
Organizations enshrine collective stupidity and employees are rewarded for checking their brains at the office door.
THE CLOTHES MAKE THE WOMAN
Strong Suit
racked.com
Dress for Success has been outfitting disadvantaged women for nearly two decades. Can clothes really open up a whole world?
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This Startup Gives You Access To Affordable Funding
hello.pave.com
Is high interest debt holding you back from your life goals? Pave gives you access to affordable funding to make your big ideas become reality.
NEW ENTERPRISES
BOOK REPORTED
How An Amazon Kindle Scam Made Millions Of Dollars
zdnet.com
Valeriy Shershnyov hoodwinked Amazon customers into buying low-quality ebooks, which were boosted on the online marketplace by an unscrupulous system of bots, scripts, and virtual servers.
THE PRICE IS ASTRONOMICAL
WATCH: How Much Would It Cost To Live On The Moon?
digg.com
Using some Mark Watney-style math, we can calculate that the approximate costs of living on the moon for one year would come to... let's see... ah, "way too frickin' much."
GHOST; WRITER
Meet Guy Sims Fitch, A Fake Writer Invented By The US Government
paleofuture.gizmodo.com
Guy Sims Fitch had a lot to say about the world economy in the 1950s and 60s. But no matter what you thought of Guy Sims Fitch's ideas, he had one big problem. He didn't exist.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
IF IT'S YELLOW LET IT MELLOW, IF IT'S SILVER...
Dude Fills A Toilet With 240 Pounds Of Mercury Just To See If It Will Flush
digg.com
What do you do when you have an outdoor toilet, over 200 pounds of mercury and time to kill?
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That's it for today. Please, don't use your toilet as a laboratory.