Latest articles Wednesday January 13, 2021

1. Featured Story: Why gig workers are turning away from traditional banks

   162 million people, or 30% of the workforce, across the US and the EU-15 countries are gig workers. In 2018, the total spending on the gig economy around the world reached a staggering $4.5 trillion. Meanwhile in the US, 80% of large companies are planning to switch to a “flexible workforce”.

   By Stav Dimitropoulos

1. Silicon Valley’s corporate ‘mindfulness’ hypocrisy

   Silicon Valley is notorious for its idiosyncratic blend of free-market libertarianism and ersatz corporatist spirituality. Perhaps it all started at Apple with Steve Jobs and his dilettantish interest in Zen Buddhism, even though he often called his employees shitheads and was seen as a tyrant and bully. Little did Jobs know of the dark side of Zen’s long history of militarism and its cooptation by Japanese imperialism.

   By Ron Purser

   From the Delivering Happiness desk