The marketing failure that's going to kill us all

Tech Insider : Economy
Amid the rising tide of the ocean's waves are floating ephemera of environmental marketing: A large orange billboard that says
Campaigns to help the environment aren't working. We need better messaging.

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Millennials and Gen Z are banking on an inheritance from their boomer parents. That's a big mistake.

Tech Insider : Economy
A dollar cake is being cut up by old and wealthy people.
Boomers are rolling in financial assets. But they are probably going to spend all their savings before they can pass anything down to their children.

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Working in Silicon Valley used to be fun. Now it's just another miserable corporate gig.

Tech Insider : Economy
Tech bro appearing disinterested while working in an office setting, with a chain linking their hand and briefcase.
Employee satisfaction among tech workers has plummeted, falling in line with workers in finance and consulting — industries that often compete for the same pool of talent.

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Big Tech made America lonely. Now it needs to fix the crisis it helped create.

Tech Insider : Economy
In a black glitchy abyss of floating glowing boxes full of lonely people on some form of technological device, two boxes float near each other towards connection.
Big Tech's obsession with feeding customers exactly what they want made Americans lonely. Now the industry has a chance to redeem itself.

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Now the industry needs to help bring us back together

Gen Z students are inventing their own college degrees, from Chaos Studies to Human-Computer Interaction

Tech Insider : Economy
A blueprint drawing of a college degree
Customized majors are on the rise as Gen Z students worried about the future of the job market turn to build-your-own degree programs.

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Welcome to the Great Internet Splintering

Tech Insider : Economy
People walking away from phones showing various social media logos
People are leaving big platforms for smaller online circles. It's the start of a new, healthier era of social media.

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A night inside a strip club near Ukraine’s front lines

Tech Insider
Woman standing in front of ruins in Ukraine.
Valeriya Zavadskaya, 24, co-owns Flash Dancers with her mother. "Our goal is to be a switch from what is happening," she says.

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wanted was a swimming pool. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in Zelle fraud.

Tech Insider : Economy
An illustration of a pool with floaties in the shape of a frowning face

A pool could have been evidence that my life hadn't amounted to nothing. But after we Zelle-ed the deposit to our contractor, things started to go very wrong.

All I wanted was a status symbol. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in the downside of payment apps.

Meet the families who are ditching America to travel abroad as digital nomads

Tech Insider : Economy, Travel
A mouse clicks around a spinning globe, opening web windows that portray a family of four smiling.
Remote work has lead to a boom in people traveling the world — and now people are taking their kids with them.

Arantza Pena Popo

The job Americans would most like to see replaced by robots

Tech Insider : Sports
Robo-umps
Robo-ump has been sold as a futuristic solution to an age-old problem: With a computer-powered strike zone, an afternoon at the park will never again be ruined by human error.

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