(Concluded from Part 1.) For the longest time, business analysts were calling the automation revolution a cyclical recession. Said Business Week in 1993: “This is the first time in the postwar period that [manufacturing employment] has failed to bounce back in the wake of a recession.” (1) At last it became impossible to ignore the […]
Zen, Business, and the Natural State
I’m back in my natural state again today. It occurred during the middle of having a Skype-message chat with Andrea. For the third time, I was already in it before I realized I was. So first the state and then the recognition of it. What that means is that the student of awareness has an […]
Golden Gaia News Roundup: May 21, 2015
Big Banks pay billions in fines from guilt over market manipulation. Citigroup, Barclays, JPMorgan, and the Royal Bank of Scotland have been fined over their unethical practices of currency trading. Previous to this, most banks had been “too big to prosecute”, so crimes were usually dealt with through a hand-slapping policy. One of the things […]
Employer Callousness: "Dead Peasants" Insurance
In “Capitalism: A Love Story,” Michael Moore shone the light on an employer practice called “Dead Peasants” insurance. In order to free myself up to write on other topics, I’ll let Liz Pulliam Weston of MSN Money, explain the concept. It’s a shameless, vulture-like arrangement whereby a company profits from an employee’s death, with […]