With the soaring cost of higher education, has the value a college degree been turned upside down. College tuition and fees are up 1000% since 1980. Half of all recent college graduates are jobless or underemployed, revealing a deep disconnect between higher education and the job market. It is no surprise everyone is asking: Where is the return on investment? Is the assumption that higher education returns greater prosperity no longer true? And if this is the case, how does this impact you, your children and grandchildren? We must thoroughly understand the twin revolutions now fundamentally...
With the soaring cost of higher education, has the value a college degree been turned upside down. College tuition and fees are up 1000% since 1980. H...
You hear it everywhere: the days of good jobs, great careers - even with a college degree - are over and dead. That the economy has become so mystifyingly controlled, convoluted and convulsive that a lifetime career has become a fantasy pursuit for chumps. In this bewildering environment, how do you get direction, and more importantly, move forward? In Get a Job, Build a Real Career, and Defy a Bewildering Economy, respected financial blogger Charles Smith (oftwominds.com) turns the conventional wisdom on its head. This book delivers the insight and positive action plan to get you employed....
You hear it everywhere: the days of good jobs, great careers - even with a college degree - are over and dead. That the economy has become so mystifyi...
What if we could hit the reset button on the way we create money, work, commerce and community? This is not an idle question, for technology now enables us to hit that reset button and organize the creation of money, work, commerce and community in new ways. If we could start from scratch, what would a new system look like? To answer that, we must understand why the current system is failing. The current system is based on five principles that are assumed to be true: -- Money created by banks trickles down to create work for all -- Technology creates more jobs than automation destroys --...
What if we could hit the reset button on the way we create money, work, commerce and community? This is not an idle question, for technology now enabl...
Inequality is rising globally, and rising inequality is destabilizing. A status quo of increasing inequality self-destructs. To avoid this fate, we must answer this question: Why is the gulf between the wealthy and everyone else widening so dramatically? The answer boils down to one word: privilege. What is privilege? There are many types of privilege, but they all share two characteristics: privilege delivers benefits, wealth and power that are unearned. Privilege is destabilizing for many reasons: the dead weight of privilege reduces productivity, generates perverse incentives and fuels...
Inequality is rising globally, and rising inequality is destabilizing. A status quo of increasing inequality self-destructs. To avoid this fate, we mu...
El futuro pertenecera al trabajo productivo, siempre y cuando este lleno de proposito... Que pasaria si pudieramos pulsar un boton de "reinicio" que afecte la forma en que creamos el dinero, el trabajo, el comercio y las comunidades? Esta no es una pregunta idealista, ya que la tecnologia de hoy en dia nos permite apretar ese boton de reinicio y reorganizar la creacion del dinero, el trabajo, el comercio y las comunidades bajo nuevas alternativas. Si pudieramos empezar desde cero, Como luciria un nuevo sistema? Evidentemente, necesitamos un sistema que ofrezca lo que el actual en que vivimos...
El futuro pertenecera al trabajo productivo, siempre y cuando este lleno de proposito... Que pasaria si pudieramos pulsar un boton de "reinicio" que a...
