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GaryVee Is Still Preaching the Hustle Gospel in the Middle of a Pandemic

His message is what so many desperate people want to hear right now. It’s also dangerous. — There are few business maneuvers that Gary Vaynerchuk appears to love more than the flip. The Belarus-born, New Jersey-raised, straight-talking entrepreneur — “GaryVee” to his fans — regularly recommends flipping everything from sports cards to sports cars. He once created a special five-part video series devoted to his love of…

Gary Vaynerchuk

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GaryVee Is Still Preaching the Hustle Gospel in the Middle of a Pandemic

Gary Vaynerchuk

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Published in Debugger

·Dec 24, 2020

My Internet Happy Place: TikTok, a Haven for Weird

At the end of a year in which we could not explore much IRL, team OneZero is sharing our favorite places we found online. The first thing I love about TikTok is that nobody I know is on TikTok. Because while it is fine and even addicting to watch old…

Internet Happy Places

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Internet Happy Places

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Published in OneZero

·Dec 1, 2020

“Uber employs more than 12,000 drivers in Kenya. All of the more than 80 people who were interviewed expressed distress and said they were barely making ends meet.”

By now it’s a familiar story: Uber enters a new market, enticing drivers with big promises and relatively high pay. Drivers base their decisions — like whether to buy a car that meets Uber’s standards — on these initial terms. …

Uber

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Uber

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Published in OneZero

·Nov 18, 2020

“That the plant-based meat industry has never industrialized production is why plant-based meat continues to be so expensive.”

America consumes the equivalent of 96 pounds of chicken per person every year. In order to make plant-based alternatives competitive, writes Andrew Zaleski on Future Human, they need to be…

Food

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Food

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Published in Debugger

·Nov 18, 2020

“Think of it as a subscription — for your heart.”

What if the internet of things were inside you? Jameson Rich has lived with a cardiac device connected to the internet for the past three years, well aware that the same types of security risks inherent to any connected gadget also apply to his heart. …

Onezero

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Onezero

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Published in Debugger

·Nov 11, 2020

“While the brand BlackBerry has shriveled into invisibility, the company is still substantial.”

In his latest Where Are They Now column for Marker, Whet Moser investigates what happened to the company behind the button-heavy, Obama-favorite BlackBerry. Though BlackBerry has thoroughly squandered the 55% share of the U.S. …

Blackberry

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Blackberry

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Published in OneZero

·Nov 4, 2020

Proposition 22: What Has Changed, What Has Not

A cheat sheet for your doomscrolling — Proposition 22 passed in California on Tuesday. Uber, Lyft, and other gig economy companies spent more than $200 million on the ballot measure, which will allow them to classify drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. Here’s what has changed: Gig economy workers in California will be classified as independent…

Prop 22

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Proposition 22: What Has Changed, What Has Not

Prop 22

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Published in OneZero

·Nov 3, 2020

The Fate of Gig Workers Is on California’s Ballot

Proposition 22 would officially make gig economy workers freelancers — Today California votes on Proposition 22, the controversial ballot initiative that seeks to grant companies like Uber and Lyft an exception to a California law that makes their workers employees. …

Prop 22

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Prop 22

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Published in OneZero

·Oct 28, 2020

“The advent of streaming platforms has demanded a critical look at how major companies will seek to strong-arm consumers into buying their products”

For decades, ABC aired A Charlie Brown Christmas each holiday season. But starting this year, the Peanuts special will instead stream exclusively on Apple TV+. Joshua N. Miller explores the significance of this move in an essay on Debugger. “If Apple is bold enough to think it can make a…

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Published in OneZero

·Oct 13, 2020

“Amazon has tried to maximize profit at the expense of its own workers’ safety, skimping disastrously on workplace protections and paid time off.”

In April, OneZero’s Brian Merchant made the case that the pandemic put an end to the Amazon debate: Considering a long list of abuses at the company, he argues, shopping on its platform is unethical. It’s a case worth keeping in mind during Amazon Prime Day, the company’s annual shopping…

Amazon

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Amazon

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