Influencer Economy 101: How Self-Branding Replaced Self-Awareness
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Society & Culture

Influencer Economy 101: How Self-Branding Replaced Self-Awareness There was a time when people aspired to self-improvement. Now they aspire to self-monetization. In 2025, identity has become a business strategy, and authenticity is a subscription model. According to Bloomberg, the global influencer economy is now worth $250 billion, larger than the GDP of most countries that […]

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Generation AI: How Humans Became the Slowest App on Earth
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Society & Culture

Generation AI: How Humans Became the Slowest App on Earth In 2025, speed has become the new social class. Artificial intelligence writes, calculates, and decides before humans even finish thinking. Bloomberg recently reported that more than half of global knowledge work is now assisted or directly performed by AI systems. The BBC called it “the […]

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Quarterly Earnings Season: When PowerPoint Becomes an Olympic Sport
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Business & Corporate Culture

Quarterly Earnings Season: When PowerPoint Becomes an Olympic Sport Every three months, capitalism transforms into a global pageant of charts, jargon, and overconfidence known as earnings season. Executives rehearse their lines, analysts sharpen their spreadsheets, and entire economies brace for the ritualistic release of numbers that may or may not mean anything. According to Bloomberg, […]

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Rebranding Failure: Why Every Bank Now Calls Itself a Fintech
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Business & Corporate Culture

Rebranding Failure: Why Every Bank Now Calls Itself a Fintech The global banking sector has discovered a revolutionary way to seem innovative without changing anything: call itself fintech. Across continents, banks are swapping marble lobbies for digital buzzwords, hoping to convince the world that their decades-old infrastructure is suddenly disruptive. According to Bloomberg, more than […]

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Office Back to Office: Why Companies Can’t Quit Cubicle Culture
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Business & Corporate Culture

Office Back to Office: Why Companies Can’t Quit Cubicle Culture The global return-to-office experiment is going exactly as predicted: reluctantly, expensively, and with far too many motivational posters. Three years after promising that hybrid work was the future, corporations have decided the future was overrated. Bloomberg reports that more than 60 percent of large companies […]

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Data Privacy Is Dead : Long Live Data Exposure as a Business Model
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Technology & Startups

Data Privacy Is Dead : Long Live Data Exposure as a Business Model Data privacy once sounded like a noble ideal. Politicians pledged to defend it, corporations vowed to respect it, and consumers pretended to understand it. In 2025, that illusion is gone. Privacy has not only died, it has been monetized. According to Bloomberg, […]

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The Metaverse Returns (Again): Now with More Empty Virtual Offices
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Technology & Startups

The Metaverse Returns (Again): Now with More Empty Virtual Offices The metaverse is back. Again. And this time, it promises to be exactly as revolutionary as last time—just with fewer users and more venture capital slides. According to Bloomberg, tech giants and venture funds have quietly reignited their virtual dreams, pumping another $12 billion into […]

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AI Startups Raise Billions to Automate Their Own Press Releases
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Technology & Startups

AI Startups Raise Billions to Automate Their Own Press Releases In 2025, the AI gold rush has officially reached its most poetic stage. Startups are no longer building tools to change the world. They are building tools to announce that they are changing the world. According to Bloomberg, venture funding for AI-driven communication software hit […]

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From Left to Right to Whatever Works: The Ideology-Free Era of 2025 Politics
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Politics & Policy

From Left to Right to Whatever Works: The Ideology-Free Era of 2025 Politics Once upon a time, politics had an identity crisis. Now it has solved that by simply having no identity at all. Across the globe, ideological lines are dissolving faster than public trust surveys. The left has discovered capitalism, the right has discovered […]

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The New Economic Order: Now with More Meetings and Less Productivity
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Politics & Policy

The New Economic Order: Now with More Meetings and Less Productivity The global economy has evolved. Not into something faster, leaner, or smarter, but into something more calendar-dependent. Productivity is down, GDP is wobbling, and inflation is doing interpretive dance, yet the only thing truly booming is the number of meetings. According to Bloomberg, the […]

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Politicians Discover AI : Immediately Try to Ban It
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Politics & Policy

Politicians Discover AI : Immediately Try to Ban It In a plot twist that surprised absolutely no one, global lawmakers have finally discovered artificial intelligence. After months of asking their aides what the ChatGPT thing was, politicians from Washington to Brussels to New Delhi are now promising to regulate AI with the same enthusiasm they […]

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Crypto Markets in Therapy: Why Traders Are Now Paying for Emotional Support Dogs
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Global Finance & Economy

Crypto Markets in Therapy: Why Traders Are Now Paying for Emotional Support Dogs After the crypto crash of 2022, traders turned to technical analysis. After 2023’s regulatory crackdowns, they turned to DeFi. Now, after a decade of volatility and heartbreak, they have turned to therapy dogs. According to a Bloomberg feature that nobody was ready […]

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