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Which books, YouTube channels, tips, advice, etc do you recommend for budgeting and personal finance?

Bogleheads, and the bogleheads guide to investing

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%C2%AE_personal_finance_planning_start-up_kit

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%27_Guide_To_Investing

I'm very glad that someone recommended me bogleheads, after reading, I was able to open up a roth and contribute yearly which may be one of the best personal finance decisions I've made.

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U.S. port, union talks break down again over automation, with two months to go before potential strike

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progress benefits only a select group of already-rich individuals and means loss of jobs and income for everyone else.

This is tough because alternatively, not progressing on automation at the ports benefits a select group of wealthy individuals as well. The ILA's president, Harold Daggett, brings in nearly $1 million a year ($902,000) in salary, and his son Dennis which is the vice president, salary is $703,000. At the United Auto Workers union, with more than four times as many members, UAW President Shawn Fain received just under $200,000 for his eight months on the job last year. . None of the dock workers get paid close to as much.

I think one of the best solutions for this is to offer some sort of retraining for the workers who will be displaced by automation. As with any technological progress, I am sure new jobs will arise. As the article states, we don't really have a consensus on whether port automation will actually decrease jobs. I think the benefits of port automation (environment, worker safety, the end consumer, efficiency, etc) with some sort of worker retraining here really outweighs the cons.

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About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

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If I had to guess, it's because of money. There was more incentive at the time to grow fast and try to maximize profit than to limit growth and potential profits in case of a market downturn. Tim slightly explains what happened.

For a while now, we've been spending way more money than we earn, investing in the next evolution of Epic and growing Fortnite as a metaverse-inspired ecosystem for creators. I had long been optimistic that we could power through this transition without layoffs, but in retrospect I see that this was unrealistic.

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US port workers and operators reach deal to end East Coast strike immediately | Tentative deal includes a 62% wage hike over six years

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Again I am talking about automated ports not Amazon sorting facilities, please look into how automated ports work, in fully automated ports there are less workers working directly with machinery than in a standard port. You'll need to provide sources that automated ports are not safer or more efficient. The transportation and movement occupation has the highest number of fatal injuries in my state, not only can it be fatal but it also takes a toll physically as well, we should be helping these workers and automation can help do that.