How can you tell if someone isn’t really into doing you a favor?

Tech Insider
Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down
Every two minutes or so, all over the world, someone asks someone else for a small favor. and all over the world, almost everyone says yes. All the time.

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How humans behave during natural disasters

Everyone fled big cities during the pandemic. So why is your rent still so damn high?

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
An apartment building with individuals moving into empty rooms
If you're wondering why your rent is still so high, look no further than all the people who ditched their roommates over the past few years.

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Because people ditched their roommates

It's official: Gen Z is the Hustle Generation

Tech Insider : Economy
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Gen Z doesn't believe in the promise of the 9-5 corporate job — so they are creating new side hustles and forging their own career paths.

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RIP Metaverse, we hardly knew ye

Tech Insider : Economy
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The Metaverse, once the hottest idea in tech, is headed to the industry's graveyard of failed fads.

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An obituary for the latest fad to join the tech graveyard

Silicon Valley's Hail Mary moment

Tech Insider : Economy
AI holy Grail illustration
Silicon Valley is praying that AI tools like ChatGPT can keep customers and investors distracted until the stock market chaos is over and the global economy bounces back.

Arif Qazi / Insider

AI is Silicon Valley's last-ditch attempt to avoid a stock market wipeout

America is refusing to do the one simple thing that would solve the Great People Shortage

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A US factory with immigrant employees multiplying
The US needs more workers or it will face serious economic chaos. There's a clear fix: more immigration.

Tyler Le/Insider

Two simple words: more immigrants

America needs more workers. 

An explosion of hidden 'junk fees' is making every home more expensive

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
giant broker holding a house in one hand and holding a buyer in the other, shaking him as money falls out of his pockets
Many brokerages are tacking on an extra fee that has divided the real-estate industry and stoked fury among consumer advocates, who call it a blatant cash grab.

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The real 'monster' behind soaring prices: corporate greed

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
Dragon hoarding
Anyone who has bought a carton of eggs or a tank of gas has felt the sting of inflation. The data is increasingly pointing to one culprit for all these price hikes: corporate greed.

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It's becoming clear that corporate greed is screwing over the US economy

Science has finally figured out how fast and loud you should talk on Zoom

Tech Insider
Illustration of a Zoom Call
Researchers just created the largest-ever database of how we interact on video-chat. Here's what they found.

Arif Qazi / Insider

Investors are making the wrong bet on a recession — and it's going to cost them big time

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
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Investors are betting that the US economy is going to suddenly fall into a recession and inflation is going to cool. But what happens if they're wrong?

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How betting on a recession could wreck the market

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