the poors
Flotsam & Jetsam
Are You Sufficiently Exploiting Your Child’s Looks, For Money?
5:01AM Hamilton Nolan | Raising a child in our modern world can be expensive, what with their constant nagging for new “Gameboys” and “contraception”. Fortunately your child’s dewy, youthful innocence can be sold off to a modelling agency, for sweet, sweet money. More »
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Class Divide Remains Strong Online
8:45PM Andrew Belonsky | Hooray! Even social networking sites have caste systems. Richie rich folk who live in urban areas use Twitter and Facebook more than their poor, younger country bumpkin counterparts, who still use something called MySpace. [Computer World]
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Conde Nast’s Last Month Being Rich
11:44PM Hamilton Nolan | Weep, struggling members of the creative underclass, for your secret aspirations are drawing to a close: this may be the very last month of Conde Nast, Luxury Version. Coming soon: Conde Nast, Wailing Version. More »
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Conde, McKinsey And The Death Of Endless Dreams
9:00PM Andrew Belonsky | McKinsey consultants are very close to completing their evaluation of Conde Nast and all of its glorious over-consumption. This can only mean one thing: the dismantling of a publishing empire and, also, countless unborn dreams. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Time To Work Yourself To Death
6:20AM Hamilton Nolan | The Way We Live Now: On the job. Who can afford to retire? Who can afford to take a vacation? Who can afford to stop thinking about making money for one single instant? Nobody we know. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Poor Africans Catch Break On Babies (Cue Questionable Remarks)
11:48AM Andrew Belonsky | It never fails: you leave a little food on your plate and some liberal whines about all the starving children in Africa. Well, thanks to a new, cheap invitro program, there may soon be more hungry mouths to not feed… More »
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