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Flurry of Articles on Micropreneurship

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 Articles include: Why People Want to Be Micro-Entrepreneurs :  From Fast Company Co.Exist, this article covers a survey by micro-task site Fivvr on why people want to be micropreneurs.  The top reasons are job independence, frustration with the 9 to 5 grind and the money.

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A Flurry of Articles on the She-conomy

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Several good articles on the growing role women are playing in the economy this week.  The NY Times article is in their Europe section, which I like because we get a lot of questions asking if the She-conomy is only a U.S.   Economics is not a zero sum game.    This will create more opportunities for everyone.   

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The Rise of Ecommerce Nomads

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Key article quote defining Amazon Nomads: " merchants who travel the backroads of America searching clearance aisles and dying chains for goods to sell on Amazon. As the article points out, this is not an easy business.  Key article quote from one of the nomads: “It’s kind of nice to just be carefree, you know?

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The Anti-Work Movement and the Surge in Self-Employment

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" Our favorite antiwork forum post (below) is from  a Business Insider article on the antiwork movement. We'll have more on this topic in the near future, but below are several articles related to the antiwork movement. The post nicely sums up the lack of personal time associated with many jobs.  

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The Post Pandemic YOLO Movement

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We learned this interesting fact from the New York Times article Welcome to the YOLO Economy.      The article describes the growing number of people who are, in the words of the article, "quitting prestigious and high-paying jobs to pursue risky passion projects."

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The Flying Car Dream Continues

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But as the New York Times article What is a Flying Car points out, the long term dream of flying cars continues to get closer: That dream, most experts agree, is a long way from reality.   Just last November, they had another article on flying cars.   The first flying car prototypes were produced over a century ago. 

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The Creator Economy Monetization Features of the Major Social Media Platforms

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The article also makes a good point about the diversity of digital creators.   For example, as we were writing this article, we heard that  YouTube is launching a $100 million fund to attract TikTok creators to its Shorts product. Key quote: Substack creators are writers, while Twitch creators make videos.