Polemikos

Obama quer aumentar salários dos pobres. Warren Buffett acha que salários maiores levam os empresários a contratar menos.

Obama has proposed raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour as one way to lift Americans out of poverty. While some research shows that a minimum wage hike would boost the economy and eventually create jobs, some argue that a minimum wage hike would discourage businesses from hiring workers because of increased payroll costs. Buffett noted in his interview with CNBC that “there’s tradeoffs on the minimum wage and you can do all these studies but they don’t know.” (Huffpost News)

Boa dica do que é essencial para se ter sucesso escrevendo.

In short, if you want to know how to be a successful writer, there is specific advice, general advice, logistical advice and spiritual advice. But in all this advice, the most important element, the one, true, absolute key to personal, financial, aesthetic and every other kind of success as a writer, is invariably left out. Work ethic, knowledge, skill, perseverance — none of them is as important as the one, single most important thing.

Which would be luck.

Nobody likes to talk about luck. If you’re a successful writer, you, of course, like to think that you got where you got by work and skill, grit and talent. Similarly, if you are trying to break into writing, you want to know what you can do and how you can do it. You don’t want to be told that, to some fairly consequential degree, your success, or lack thereof, is beyond your control.

Eu nem achava que chocolate branco fosse chocolate de verdade. E não é. Ele é feito da manteiga do cacau. O cacau de verdade não entra. Mas entra muito açúcar na sua composição. É curioso que o Brasil seja o maior consumidor, com mais de 15% do mercado mundial.

de artigo de Quartz.com:

Who eats white chocolate? A lot of people, apparently.

Nearly $1.5 billion worth of white chocolate was consumed around the world last year, according to data from Euromonitor. The US, UK, and Brazil alone gobbled up over $700 million worth, or roughly half the total.

At over $315 million sold annually, Brazil has by far the world’s largest appetite for white chocolate. It accounts for 15.5% of the country’s overall chocolate market, the highest percentage for any of the 52 major countries surveyed. Netherlands was second, with 15%; South Africa was third, with 13.5%; and Mexico was fourth, with 11%.

Bom texto de Russell Brand em The Guardian:

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People are going to use drugs; no self-respecting drug addict is even remotely deterred by prohibition. What prohibition achieves is an unregulated, criminal-controlled, sprawling, global mob-economy, where drug users, their families and society at large are all exposed to the worst conceivable version of this regrettably unavoidable problem. Continue lendo “Drogas: a mudança é difícil, a apatia é fácil, tradição é o narcótico de nossas leis.”