“Today in the US, the CEO-to-worker pay gap stands at a staggering 351 to one, an unacceptable increase from 15 to one in 1965. In other words, the average CEO makes nearly nine times what the average person will earn over a lifetime in just one year.”
American CEOs make 351 times more than workers. In 1965 it was 15 to one | Indigo Olivier http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/17/american-chief-executive-pay-wages-workers via Instapaper
]]>Opinion | What if Humans Just Can’t Get Along Anymore?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/opinion/technology-internet-cooperation.html
The population bomb never went off. The world’s birthrate declined as the poorest people were lifted out of poverty. And as the pioneering political economist Elinor Ostrom showed over a lifetime of research, there are countless examples of people coming together to create rules and institutions to manage common resources. People aren’t profit-maximizing automatons; time and again, she found, we can make individual sacrifices in the interest of collective good.
Beyond GDP: 20 US states have adopted genuine progress indicators
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/sep/23/genuine-progress-indicator-gdp-gpi-vermont-maryland
The World’s Sustainable Development Goals Aren’t Sustainable
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/30/the-worlds-sustainable-development-goals-arent-sustainable/
(via Instapaper)
Why so many companies are pushing for the metaverse
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/microsoft-facebook-and-everyone-else-are-building-the-metaverse-but-will-you-want-to-live-there/
Metaverses are perhaps the clearest admission yet that the future of tech doesn't lie just in VR or AR, but in a mix of many devices accessing a shared online world, which may be more immersive and 3D than the internet you're currently using to read this story.
“The central banks have been creating money out of nothing with quantitative easing, but what if that was directed not to private banks to do their usual stupid thing of profit-making but to do useful work that the central banks designate by some simple rubric of carbon sequestration. When I read it, I thought, maybe that’s a way forward: using an existing system but more intelligently, a long-term biosphere, survivalist-type method.”
Kim Stanley Robinson Bears Witness to Our Climate Futures https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/qa-kim-stanley-robinson/ via Instapaper
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