Category Archives: Economy

Immigrants risk a lot, don’t you think?

Immigrants risk their lives, and families to be under paid and overworked, The Southern Poverty Law Center has found that from 2004-2006, the average personal yearly income for women farmworkers was 11,250. For men it was 16,250. With weakened laws, … Continue reading

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So Connected, So Isolated; How Social Media is Warping Our Sense of Self

“Keeping up with the Joneses” was a phrase that gained a foothold in American culture during the 1950’s, when we were enjoying the post World War II boom. It describes the desire on the part of the average family to … Continue reading

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Computers: The Real Foreign Replacements

While reading “Automation on the Job” I can’t help but feel like the author, Brian Hayes, is contradicting himself with every sentence. He says that Americans used to be concerned that the computer would replace them and that this worry … Continue reading

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Has automation failed to simplify our lives?

In the 1950’s people had mixed emotions on automation, whether it was a good thing or bad, was based on your perception of the future and what it would hold. Many believed that it would take jobs away and we … Continue reading

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Click Trajectories and How You Can Make Millions Being Their Guru!

Two years ago I accomplished one of my bigger life goals; I wrote and published a book. It’s called Recessions End – Stimulus for the Rest of Us and although it didn’t make me rich or famous, it was a … Continue reading

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Losing Jobs to Machines

It has always been a worry to the job marketplace that factories would completely replace humans with machines, putting large amounts of people out of the job.  But I don’t feel like this is weighing so heavily as it did … Continue reading

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Computers… The Real Enemy

Forget the fact that computers were supposed to make everything easier for us. Computers have gone a step further making people, the ones who thought they needed computers, obsolete. In an economy that is finally on the verge of growth … Continue reading

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Lights. Camera. Push to Start.

Technology is making our daily lives easier and smoother yet at the same time more difficult and stressful. Remember a time when you clocked out and work DID NOT come home with you? How about a time when you got … Continue reading

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Yahoo’s Telecommuting Ban Receives Major Backlash

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has given her employees until June to commute to an office everyday, essentially ending employees telecommuting from home. This decision from Mayer has been met with a lot of criticism, there has been some speculation that … Continue reading

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Will automation eventually make the job market die out?

Many things are made from technology and are automatic these days. Some things that I can name are automated phone messages or automated voices when calling a number. By this I mean when you call a company and have an … Continue reading

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