2023/12/08

Todays question

 Are you an artist or a tradesman. Are you okay with that

Todays Thought

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. 

-Louis de Bernieres, novelist (b. 8 Dec 1954)

2023/12/07

The top 1% of American earners now own more wealth than the entire middle class

The top 1% of American earners now own more wealth than the entire middle class

The top 1% of American earners now control more wealth than the nation’s entire middle class, federal data show.

More than one-quarter of all household wealth, 26.5%, belongs to Americans who earn enough money to rank in the top percentile by income, according to Federal Reserve statistics through mid-2023.

The top 1% holds $38.7 trillion in wealth. That’s more than the combined wealth of America’s middle class, a group many economists define as the middle 60% of households by income. Those households hold about 26% of all wealth.

Low-income Americans, representing the bottom 20% by income, own about 3% of the wealth.



Todays Thought

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. 

-Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor and political activist (b. 7 Dec 1928)

Layed off?

 I'm the former Microsoft VP of HR. Here's what I would do in the first 48 hours of being laid off from a job.


1. Read carefully

2. Consider pushing back

3. Consider legal options

4. Tune up your résumé and LinkedIn

5. Go modest when taking it public

6. Work your network

2023/12/06

Apartments near Metrocenter in Phoenix

 Scottsdale-based company makes way for apartments near Metrocenter in Phoenix

Scottsdale-based MK Company is developing Metro Lofts, located near 29th and Dunlap avenues, just south of the mall. The four-story apartment complex will have one- and two-bedroom units, and residents will have the ability to rent a garage, which will come pre-wired for electric vehicles.



2023/12/05

Todays Word

 

diablerie

PRONUNCIATION:
(dee-AH-bluh-ree or dee-AB-luh-ree) 

MEANING:
noun:
1. Sorcery; witchcraft; black magic.
2. A representation of devils or demons in art or literature.
3. Mischievous manner or conduct.

ETYMOLOGY:
From French diable (devil), from Latin diabolus (devil), from Greek diabolos (slanderer), from diaballein (to slander), from dia- (across) + ballein (to hurl). Earliest documented use: 1653.

USAGE:
“[The hat] unquestionably lent a diablerie to my appearance, and mine is an appearance that needs all the diablerie it can get.”
P.G. Wodehouse; Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves; Simon & Schuster; 1963.

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