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Sarah Kessler: Pixel And Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In The Gig Economy » For one month, I became the “micro-entrepreneur” touted by companies like TaskRabbit, Postmates, and Airbnb. Instead of the labor revolution I had been promised, all I found was hard work, low pay, and a system that puts workers at a disadvantage. Fast Company || March 18, 2014 Christina Moon: The Secret World of Fast Fashion »
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Two years after Nancy Jo Sales profiled the "Prep-School Gangsters" selling drugs to NYs finest, she tracked down those same kids. Most of them, she found, had been dating Liv Tyler or pitching Puffy movie scripts. They all went on to own new-media companies. Total nightmares. Cross yourself: this is about to get hellish. Shawn sits beside Heather at a Mac 8100; they’re designing Danücht’s line sheets, or specifications for production.
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