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� � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � 6 Places In Europe That Will Pay You To Move There - Forbes    Have you ever dreamed of dropping everything and moving to a sunny seaside town in Italy or a picturesque mountain village in Switzerland? Imagine if you were also paid to do it. Well, it’s not a fantasy. Across Europe, communities are in search of new residents and are willing to throw generous financial incentives into the bargain. Albinen in the Swiss canton of Valais is, like many places on this list, struggling with depopulation. There are now fewer than 250 residents in the Alpine village. Continued here How to cancel "cancel culture" - The Economist    The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time. By Yascha Mounk. Penguin; 416 pages; $32. Allen Lane; £25.The Cancelling of the American Mind: How Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All. By Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott. Simon & Schuster; 464 pages; $29.99. Allen Lane; £25 Yascha Mounk’s book contains several jolting stories, which encapsulate the extreme thinking of some on the American left. When covid-19 vaccines became available, most countries dispensed them first to health workers and the elderly (who are much more vulnerable to the disease than young people). Yet America’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention urged states to offer priority to 87m “essential workers”, which included package-delivery drivers and film crews. Its rationale was “racial equity”, because old people were more likely to be white, even though such a policy would probably cause thousands more deaths. In another story, an African-American mother tried to get her seven-year-old into a class at school. The principal said no: “That’s not the black class.” This was not a scene from the Jim Crow South of the 1950s, but from present-day America, where a growing number of “progressive” schools group children by race and teach them to think of themselves as “racial beings”, all in the name of “antiracism”. Continued here Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Watch This Guy Work, and You'll Finally Understand the TikTok Era - WIRED    We were on the patio of a middling Los Angeles taqueria when Ursus Magana tried to talk me out of writing this story. A hirsute fireplug of a man with a slew of anime tattoos, Magana wasn't worried that I'd spill any awful secrets. In the months since I'd first messaged him on Instagram, he'd been endlessly candid about his life as a talent manager for emo rappers, goth TikTokkers, and OnlyFans creators.He just thought I was wasting my time on a project that seemed unlikely to excite the social media algorithms that mean everything in his world. "Do you know how hard it is for an article to go viral?" he warned. "I mean, articles never go viral." Perhaps fearing he'd bummed me out by implying that my career was pointless, Magana put off eating his last brisket taco to whip up a blueprint for how he would guide me to stardom. It started with me ditching journalism to focus on churning out daily TikToks in which I'd offer tips about storytelling. Magana's talent management startup, 25/7 Media, would ensure eyeballs for this content by enlisting its 60-plus clients to drive traffic my way. Once I'd built a decent fan base, 25/7 would produce a weekly podcast featuring my candid conversations with up-and-coming digital creators. I'd then parlay that success into a "big swing": a how-to book or Netflix series that would land me a spot on The Tonight Show and a lucrative endorsement deal with, say, a manufacturer of ballpoint pens. I'm enough of a realist to know Magana was flattering me and that I'm much too boring to pull off any of what he proposed. But he delivered his pitch with such confidence, such zeal, that a dreamy little piece of me couldn't help but see myself telling witty anecdotes on Jimmy Fallon's couch. And when I caught myself flirting with that fantasy, I grasped how a genuinely talented young artist must feel when Magana lays out his plan for making them the richest person in their family by the age of 19. Continued here Parents are stealing their children's identities to access debt—and destroying their kids' credit scores in the process - Fortune    When Axton Betz-Hamilton set up her first utility bill at college, she soon realized something was very, very wrong. It turned out she’d been a victim of identity theft—and it had destroyed her credit rating. In 2001, when she was a 19-year-old student, Betz-Hamilton’s new utility provider demanded a $100 security deposit to turn on her service, citing her credit score. Continued here

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