Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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7 years, 6 months ago

such work is easily automatable

[...] Consider 'green jobs', for example. Within that category there are occupations that are both high-productivity and scalable, such as work on production lines making wind turbines or solar panels. But, unfortunately, such work is easily automatable. [...]

—p.66 The Wealth of Humans: Work and its Absence in the Twenty-First Century In Search of a Better Sponge (64) by Ryan Avent
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7 years, 6 months ago

university is hard

University is hard. Many of these who don't currently make it through a college programme lack the cognitive ability to do so. Others could be helped through with better preparation and more attention. [...]

—p.55 Managing the Labour Glut (45) by Ryan Avent
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7 years, 6 months ago

Uber's PR materials archive/dissertation

[...] Uber's PR materials like to point out that the service is great for human drivers, offering them access to flexible, well-paid work. To investors, meanwhile, Uber emphasizes its desire to be a pioneer in the development of autonomous cab fleets.

—p.52 Managing the Labour Glut (45) by Ryan Avent
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harness workers to do unproductive jobs archive/dissertation

[...] Other labour-intensive apps--such as TaskRabbit, which allows users to hire people for short-term gigs as errand runners--work not because they make unskilled labour vastly more productive, but because unskilled labour is abundant and cheap enough to make it more economical to harness workers…

—p.51 Managing the Labour Glut (45) by Ryan Avent
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the proof is in the paycheques

It is tempting to believe that this balance of demand and supply for various types of workers is somehow unnatural, that were the economic decisions take by governments more fair and less tilted in favour of the rich and connected, then labour markets might look more like they did in the past, when…

—p.47 Managing the Labour Glut (45) by Ryan Avent