Immigration, Empathy and Psychology. Written by Teagan Wall; animated, and hosted by Vanessa Hill. Produced by BrainCraft for PBS Digital Studios.
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The thought of Theodore Adorno, described by Alain de Botton for The School of Life. Animation by Wonky Films.
Learn more about the Frankfurt School here.
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“Researchers from Germany and Sweden found that … entrepreneurs … have a tendency to display anti-social behavior as teenagers. There wasn’t a link between entrepreneurial tendencies and severe crimes, but those who later founded their own companies were more likely as teenagers to have been truant, ignored their parents’ rules, cheated and shoplifted minor items, compared with others in the sample.
“If millionaires were a political party, that party would make up roughly 3 percent of American families, but it would have a super-majority in the Senate, a majority in the House, a majority on the Supreme Court and a man in the White House. If working-class Americans were a political party, that party would have made up more than half the country since the start of the 20th century. But legislators from that party (those who last worked in blue-collar jobs before entering politics) would never have held more than 2 percent of the seats in Congress.”
— “Which Millionaire Are You Voting For?” Nicholas Carnes, New York Times
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“The origins of the secularized, cash-driven end-of-year holiday are to be found in the early nineteenth-century American East, where a boom of industrialism and prosperity coincided with an influx of German immigrants who celebrated Christmas, rather than the New Year of the English.”
— “Christmas and Cash: On the Origins of a Commercial Holiday,” Gregory McNamee, Britannica Blog
Further reading:
Consumer Rites: the Buying & Selling of American Holidays, Leigh Eric Schmidt (1997, Princeton University Press)
Christmas Unwrapped: Consumerism, Christ, and Culture, Richard A. Horsley and James Tracy (2001, Trinity Press International)
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Psychologist Dr Ana Tajadura-Jimenez and her University of London colleagues confirm what you commuters already know: a personal music player protects you in the a crowded bus or subway car.
“Policy makers struggling to understand the barrage of financial panics, protests and other ills afflicting the world would do well to study the works of a long-dead economist: Karl Marx.”
“The wily philosopher’s analysis of capitalism had a lot of flaws, but today’s global economy bears some uncanny resemblances to the conditions he foresaw.”
“As he wrote in ‘Das Kapital,’ companies’ pursuit of profits and productivity would naturally lead them to need fewer and fewer workers, creating an ‘industrial reserve army’ of the poor and unemployed: ‘Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery.’
The process he describes is visible throughout the developed world, particularly in the U.S. Companies’ efforts to cut costs and avoid hiring have boosted U.S. corporate profits as a share of total economic output to the highest level in more than six decades, while the unemployment rate stands at 9.1 percent and real wages are stagnant.
U.S. income inequality, meanwhile, is by some measures close to its highest level since the 1920s. Before 2008, the income disparity was obscured by factors such as easy credit, which allowed poor households to enjoy a more affluent lifestyle. Now the problem is coming home to roost.”
Who wrote that? The Senior Economic Adviser at UBS, the Swiss bank. Read it all:
“Give Karl Marx a Chance to Save the World Economy,” George Magnus, Bloomberg
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Beauty isn’t just in the eye of the beholder, it’s in the wallets of good-looking folks. Over the course of their work lives, conventionally attractive people make $230,000 more than less prepossessing employees and get better jobs and mortgages. Economist Daniel S. Hamermesh calls the difference in pay the “ugliness penalty” and believes unattractive people can sue to collect the balance under equal opportunity laws. Job discrimination on the basis of looks is already illegal in District of Columbia and some jurisdictions in California.
Dr. Hamermesh has written about this field of research in a book, Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful (2011, Princeton University Press). Although we personally find such comparisons odious, if you must know what the author looks like, click here.
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