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Be more like this guy.
According to researchers from the University of Bath School of Management and Trinity College, Dublin, “people who turn to social media to escape from superficial boredom are unwittingly preventing themselves from progressing to a state of (I kid you not) profound boredom.”
A new study of over 300,000 people in 57 countries suggests that (surprise, surprise) “females, on average, are better than males at putting themselves in others' shoes.”
Freddie deBoer: “The problem with billionaires is not the health of their companies or the source of their wealth. The problem is that the same system that produces billionaires produces sprawling inequality and entrenched poverty. The problem with billionaires, in other words, is their structural class position.”
