Alguien escribió:
Brasil apagará uno de sus dos reactores de energía nuclear para tareas de mantención y renovación de combustible, lo que dejará al país sin la electricidad suficiente como para abastecer a una ciudad de cerca de 1 millón de personas en un momento en el que enfrenta posibles racionamientos de energía por una sequía.
Brasil lucha contra el tiempo para evitar cortes de energía y racionamiento de electricidad debido a una prolongada sequía que ha reducido el nivel de los embalses de las represas hidroeléctricas a mínimos críticos.
Brasil se arriesga a una enorme vergüenza si se ve obligado a racionar la energía cuando cerca de 600.000 hinchas extranjeros comiencen a llegar al país para el Mundial de fútbol de junio del 2014.
Aaron Gervais escribió:Entrepreneurship vs. hustling
To start with, entrepreneurship—the act of recognizing an unmet need and creating a profitable business around it—only works with mass markets. Obviously, for something to be profitable, you need to sell it at a price greater than the cost of production. Yet society is forever becoming more productive, which means your thing also needs to benefit from economies of scale, because the price people will pay is constantly going down. Without the scale, entrepreneurship is just hustling (after all, the #1 occupation in the third world is “entrepreneur”).
Money loses value over time (inflation), so hustlers are always fighting a losing battle, working harder and harder to maintain the same standard of living even as the prices they can command continue to fall. For this reason, hustling is always a downward slope that perpetuates the cycle of poverty, whether you’re an artist or one of the 80% of Bangladeshi entrepreneurs who earn less than a dollar a day. Things are infinitely more dire in the third world, but the fundamental principle is the same.
klausmaria escribió:Al parecer vamos a un mundo polarizado con empleo en los dos extremos: tecnócratas ricos y trabajos de baja cualificación y bajos salarios pero difíciles de mecanizar... los de en medio y con ellos la clase media desaparece.
El problema es que necesitamos una amplia clase media para tener una economía saludablemente basada en el consumo.
klausmaria escribió:El avance tecnológico hace saltar las alarmas: ¿cuánto empleo puede destruir?
Robots y ordenadores son cada vez más inteligentes
Numerosos estudios anticipan tasas de paro del 50 y hasta el 75%
http://www.eleconomista.es/empresas-finanzas/noticias/4560947/01/13/Traera-la-tecnologia-un-desempleo-masivo-en-los-paises-desarrollados.html
dreamtopia escribió:hacía un mundo en el que la demanda de automóviles siga creciendo como lo ha hecho en las últimas década
dreamtopia escribió:... Si se debería, en política, cambiar personas por robots....robots por personas
Alguien escribió:The US is dominated by a rich and powerful elite.
So concludes a recent study by Princeton University Prof Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Prof Benjamin I Page.
This is not news, you say.
Perhaps, but the two professors have conducted exhaustive research to try to present data-driven support for this conclusion. Here's how they explain it:
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
klausmaria escribió:Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
Alguien escribió:In A Capitalism for the People, Zingales makes a forceful, philosophical, and at times personal argument that the roots of American capitalism are dying, and that the result is a drift toward the more corrupt systems found throughout Europe and much of the rest of the world. American capitalism, according to Zingales, grew in a unique incubator that provided it with a distinct flavor of competitiveness, a meritocratic nature that fostered trust in markets and a faith in mobility. Lately, however, that trust has been eroded by a betrayal of our pro-business elites, whose lobbying has come to dictate the market rather than be subject to it, and this betrayal has taken place with the complicity of our intellectual class.
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