My Advice for High School Graduates: Learn a Trade

My Advice for High School Graduates: Learn a Trade

| May 2, 2018 | Economy / BusinessIn the classic 1960s movie The Graduate, a family friend offers Dustin Hoffman, the recent graduate, one word of advice: “plastics.” My advice for today’s high school graduates: “learn a trade.” Unfortunately, there’s a historic stigma about “voc-ed,” the result...
A Shiny New Tool to Pad Profits: Stealing

A Shiny New Tool to Pad Profits: Stealing

| Apr 4, 2018 | Economy / BusinessWorkplace exploitation is at least as old as the industrial revolution. But rather than using whips to make the assembly lines move ever faster, today’s corporate exploiters use technology, devious work schedules, and lobbyists to extract more work from employees —...
A Sick New Game from the Executive Suite

A Sick New Game from the Executive Suite

| Mar 28, 2018 | Economy / BusinessToday’s corporate captains like to think of themselves not as mere businesspeople, but as geniuses of modern innovation. But innovation for what purpose? After all, some of society’s most inventive minds are flimflammers, Ponzi-schemers, gamers, and embezzlers —...