Benefit or burden ? The cities trying out universal basic income (UBI)

Benefit or burden ? The cities trying out universal basic income (UBI)

Firstly in the city of hamilton (Canada) The UBI is now a third of the way (1/3) This experiement is tested for 1000 participants with a supplement for people with disability

A lot of people and personnality are supporting the UBI ( Bernie sanders, Mark Zuckerberg , Angus Deaton)

And cities over the world are experimenting it with their population

One of the criticisms is that it creates a dependancy class that depends only by UBI

Stockton in California will become the first US city to use the UBI with her population. 100 family will receive 500 dollars per month

But there is the question of sustainability in the long term.

The flaw in Amazon’s management fad

This text talks about The ‘rank and yank’ philosophy Amazon uses to manage its own people

Amazon is a company where your annual performance review seems to happen every week. To assess performance, the company collects data on employees constantly, with hundreds of data points. Workers are encouraged to comment on each other’s performance constantly, using an anonymous online forum

Each month or so, staff are called into a meeting where they have to explain their performance on a bewildering range of measures. Every year there are sessions where employees throughout the firm are rated on their performance, and a percentage of people are fired

This how where described the condition of works in Amazon by an investigation of the NY times

But he Amazon approach has created extreme results: the company dominates online retailing; it has a stranglehold over the book market; and it has a higher valuation than the world’s biggest retailer, Walmart. Some think that Amazon’s data-driven approach is the future of management. There are signs this might be the case. New-economy companies such as Uber use real-time data to manage the performance of their drivers. Many more established companies have adopted such an approach. The public sector is also following suit.

The amazon approach has been tried before and as been called “purposeful Darwinism”. This is the idea that if you create a struggle for survival among staff, they will increase their performance. They are ranking employees on the basis of their performance, then splitting them into three groups: a small number of high performers who are lavishly rewarded; a large group of average performers who hold on to their jobs; and a third group of under-performers who are “managed out” of the organisation

Barbie finally becomes a real woman – with a more realistic figure

With her tiny waist, stick thin legs and petite frame, the Barbie doll has been accused of promoting an unhealthy body image for over five decades.

Mattel, the creator of the toys, said the new range – which also boasts seven different skin tones – was designed to promote a healthy and realistic body image and would better reflect the diversity of those who play with the dolls.

The new dolls will also boast 24 new hairstyles, including an afro, curly red hair and even long blue hair, a long way from the bright blonde locks traditionally associated with Barbie.

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