WORLD EMPLOYMENT TRENDS NOW AND THEN The Gordon Gecko career trajectory is a thing of the past – this generation would rather work at Facebook and Google. A new study by an employment data firm shows that young professionals no longer dream of raising capital for investment banks. They have their eyes on start-ups, websites, and secure government gigs. One in five workers polled picked Google as their dream place of employment, while Apple, Walt Disney, and Amazon also ranked in the top ten. Best of the best: For the second year running, one in five young professionals picked Google as the most desirable place to work Universum polled nearly 6,700 college-educated working professionals under the age of 40. They had one to eight years of work experience, and were told to pick the five employers they’d most like to work for from a list of 200. Google topped the list for the second year running. Universum’s director of Americas Chris Cordery told the Wall Street Jour...
The great strength of American capitalism is also its great weakness, namely, its extremely high weapons productivity. A number of factors have produced increases in productivity, like, the mechanization of the production process that got under way in England as early as the 18th century. In the early 20th century, then, American industrialists made a contribution in the form of automatiion. ..Amor Patriae