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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When you buy something cheap, whose hard work do you picture behind it, and what would you honestly be willing to change about how you shop or work to make that person's life better?”
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When a factory or plant shuts down, what do the workers there owe each other that the company never could?
A sudden plant closure triggers a form of grief. Some people get angry; others get quiet; some check out entirely. Because they have spent years working side-by-side, workers owe each other the grace to process that panic without judgment.... The meaning for money exchange
You’re heard people talk about work as “time for money” exchange, where you sell your limited hours to an employer for a price that makes it worth it to do stuff they care more about than you. Some people talk about shifting to charging for outcomes, instead of hours.... - Lyle Bjorn...
The Billionaire Bamboozlement: How Corporate America‘s Heist of the Working Class Listen to a political pundit or a cable news host long enough today, and you will hear a working-class citizen branded with the ultimate political insult: a "leftist, communist, socialist,...