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The Nerdletter by Hell Yeah Group | Issue No. 160
Hello pal,
I hope you had a lovely holiday and that reintegration has been gentle.
Keep it cool,
Paco
- 🤟 How to Have a Better Relationship with Money
- 🔨 The 8-Hour Workday Is a Counterproductive Lie (Wired) A-fucking-men.
- 🔮 Financial Astrologers Are Watching Uranus for a Recession (MEL Magazine)
- 🧗 How America’s Elites Lost Their Grip (TIME)
- 🏚️ California’s Fires Prove the American Dream Is Flammable (The Nation) If we want to keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to seriously question the ideal of private home ownership.
- 🦍 Prime Power: How Amazon Squeezes the Businesses Behind Its Store (The New York Times) Small business owners (and planet earth) are exploited so consumers can have a seamless, convenient shopping experience. I’m curious to see what the future holds, after each of us has carelessly and irresponsibly given Amazon so much money and so much power.
- 💎 The Rise and Fall of an All-Star Crew of Jewel Thieves (The Atlantic) A fascinating long read.
- 😱 Are you totally confused about where to start to in order to get your finances in order? Are you overwhelmed by what you should focus on first? Here are three things you can do right now to stop freaking out about your finances. Download the checklist: Stop Freaking Out in Three Easy Steps.
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