Friday, June 23, 2017
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Shorter...

Jack Ma, the poster child for the benefits of globalization: trained as a teacher, he founded e-commerce platform Alibaba in 1999 and is now a billionaire.
Now he's predicting another benefit for humans: drastically shorter workweeks.
The billionaire businessman said in the next three decades, "people [will] only work four hours a day and maybe four days a week.
My grandfather worked 16 hours a day in the farmland and [thought he was] very busy. We work eight hours, five days a week and think we are very busy."
The billionaire businessman said in the next three decades, "people [will] only work four hours a day and maybe four days a week.
My grandfather worked 16 hours a day in the farmland and [thought he was] very busy. We work eight hours, five days a week and think we are very busy."
That's about the same number as famed economist John Maynard Keynes predicted in 1930, when he said in 100 years the workweek will be much shorter, around 15 hours per week as automation increasingly takes care of people's material needs.
Ma also said people in the future will be able to vacation in a far greater variety of places.
Not going to happen..... Just a thought.
Ma also said people in the future will be able to vacation in a far greater variety of places.
Not going to happen..... Just a thought.
Flash...
The price of ethereum [alternative to Bitcoin] crashed as low as 10 cents from around $319 in about a second on the GDAX cryptocurrency exchange, which is being blamed on a "multimillion dollar market sell" order.
As the price continued to fall, another 800 stop loss orders and margin funding liquidations caused ethereum to trade as low as 10 cents.
A stop loss order is executed automatically once a security hits a particular price. Margin funding is essentially trading with borrowed funds. Liquidation is when these positions are closed automatically in order to prevent further losses. The knock-on selling effect caused the flash crash on GDAX.
Whatever it is.... the basics is there.
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
The Nerve...
Rick’s Cabaret, a strip club in Midtown Manhattan, owes more than $10 million in back pay to about 1,900 dancers who performed there without being paid hourly wages, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
The judge, Paul A. Engelmayer of the Southern District, had decided last year that Rick’s had treated the dancers as though they were employees and should have been paying them at least the minimum wage.
The judge ruled that Rick’s must pay the dancers at least $10.8 million and possibly much more, depending on the outcome of the trial, which is set for early next year.
The award, a combination of wages Rick’s did not pay and fees that the judge said Rick’s unfairly collected from the dancers, would be split among the 1,900 members of the class of plaintiffs.
Taking advantage of the worker is disgraceful. Just a thought.
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