How to Look for a Job When Everything Feels Hopeless
The economy is in the toilet and there's a pandemic happening, but somehow we are still expected to look for work.
Personal Finance
Influencer Accused of Scamming Women Out of $2M, Seeks Protection From ‘Thugs’
Sidra Humaid, who ran hundreds of money-saving schemes in Pakistan for five years, posted on Facebook last week that she’s somehow lost it all.
Robot Landlords Are Buying Up Houses
Companies with deep resources are outsourcing management to apps and algorithms, putting home ownership further out of reach.
Young Australians Are Expected to Get Screwed by the Government’s Tax Cuts
“Basically, from an age perspective, the Stage 3 tax cuts are cooked.”
Debt
My Friend Is In Serious Debt. How Do I Help?
“She’d rather get food delivered three times a day than make one trip to the supermarket.”
Ordinary People Are Smuggling Millions for Drug Dealers
Tara Hanlon flew regularly to Dubai and described it as a “perfect life”. Then she got caught at Heathrow with £1.9m in vacuum-packed bags.
I Was Just Shut Out of Student Loan Forgiveness. And I’m So Tired.
I paid 136% of what I borrowed and was elated when President Biden announced his student loan cancellation plan. Then it all changed.'
Inequality
OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers Making $2 an Hour to Filter Traumatic Content from ChatGPT
Despite their integral role in building ChatGPT, the workers faced grueling conditions and low pay.
New Study Shows 'Man-Children' Are Destroying Women's Sex Drives
Here's how to spot the behaviour - and fix it.
This Country Has 70 New Millionaires Every Day. Why Is it Among the World’s Hungriest?
Nearly 800 million Indians depend on the government’s chronically underfunded food security programme.
Corruption
The UK Just Received Its Worst Ever Score on a Global Corruption Index
But an anti-corruption expert told VICE World News that Transparency International's annual rankings ignore the central role played by the world's richest countries in corruption.
Ex-Cop Accused in Disappearance of 43 Students Was Just Extradited to Mexico
Former police supervisor Alejandro Tenescalco Mejía disappeared after the incident, and authorities were offering more than $500,000 for his arrest.