creative-underclass
Web Servants Claim They're As Happy As Kenneth the Page
Ryan Tate · 11/30/11 08:23PMWho are the techno-serfs who work for peanuts assembling furniture, making deliveries, giving massages and preparing meals via odd job websites like TaskRabbit and Zaarly? They're surprisingly cheery folks who are unreasonably happy taking crap wages from strangers, if the Observer's investigation is to be believed.
Bloggers and Other Nerds Are Renting All the Fancy Apartments Now
Hamilton Nolan · 07/19/11 09:39AMIn the olden days before the U.S. economy devolved into a pure gold-and-canned-goods bartering system, Wall Street guys were the ones who rented all the gaudy, overpriced good apartments. Now that Wall Street's been decimated, who will the real estate industry turn to, to unload all those new condos with "Wii rooms?" Oh, they will sell these pricey spaces to "bloggers," it says here. Hahaha.