Its 2025 edition highlighted how a blue-collar career can be a more than viable alternative to college for entrepreneurs such as Palmer.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
14 Sep. 2025
Executives and entrepreneurs have been for some time finding that other states offer better opportunities (but government managers in California have been hiring, which does more harm to the private sector more than good).
In their place is the attention economy, a dystopian marketplace of slop merchants, brain-rot peddlers, AI scrapyards, and extortionate big-box streaming services with junk on the shelves, all haggling for your time and money.
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Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
Affirm, PayPal, Afterpay—everyone is targeting the same merchants and users.
Created in 2006 by the British artist Jason deCaires Taylor, the haunting life-size figures, including a man typing at a desk (entitled The Lost Correspondent), fishermen, market traders, and a ring of children holding hands, can be viewed by snorkelers and divers ducking beneath the bay’s surface.
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The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
19 Sep. 2025
Surprisingly, this includes active traders who qualify for trader tax status (TTS).
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