Money Don’t Matter 2 Night: A Friday Round-Up
We’re rounding out this week with some Friday reads in place of our usual chat, as Nicole and I are both airborne and we aren’t magicians, guys.
Here, some stories we didn’t get a chance to dive into this week. Let them carry you into the purple Friday dusk.
Celebrating the one & only PRINCE @HamiltonMusical #RestInPurple #PrinceRIPpic.twitter.com/zbNB4veiYP
4 Men with 4 Very Different Incomes Open Up About the Lives They Can Afford
Esquire interviews four men about their lives on different sides of the poverty line. They managed to find a millionaire who isn’t a dick about taxes, so that’s refreshing.
Do you think your taxes are too high? I’m happy with taxes. I had a really good year when I was 22 or 23 — I made about 250 grand — and I came home and complained to my dad about it. I said, “I can’t believe I’m paying all those taxes! Half the money is gone!” And my dad said, “You should feel lucky that you live in a country where you can pay taxes”: He came from a communist-run country. Ever since that day, I never complain about my taxes.
How Can Farm-to-Table Restaurants Survive?
This is an amazing deep dive into Farm-to-Table dining in Vermont, and works well as a counterpoint to last week’s Tampa Bay Times “Farm to Fable” take down. The amount of personal labor, planning, and creativity required to cook local — on the part of the farmer and the chef — is slashing margins at many restaurants, especially since it hasn’t been proven that diners are willing to pay more to know the name of the lamb they’re eating that evening.
Etsy's Dream of a Shiny, Post-Capitalist (and Post-Profit) Workplace
A few weeks old now, but this profile on Etsy’s approach to a “post-profit” workplace is still worth a read, if only to help you when you’re working on your Etsy cover letter:
There is free lunch, there is on-site continuing education, there is someone with pink hair to reinflate the tires of the bike you were sweetly encouraged to ride to work. Every Etsy employee is given 40 paid hours off annually to devote to volunteer work; the company covers 100 percent of health-care premiums and for years made a point of paying American salaries at least 40 percent above the local living wage. Just last month, Etsy announced a near-unprecedented paid-parental-leave policy — 26 weeks for men and women, applicable to birth, adoption, or surrogacy. Cynics say that tech companies swaddle their employees in order to tighten their claims on them, but it’s very hard to find an Etsy worker complaining about the free pottery workshops going on downstairs.
20 Wines for Under $20: The Spring Edition
And now, the weekend. Pour yourself a (cheap) drink. Toast a legend. We’ll see you Monday.
Prince's performance at the 1991 MTV VMAs was too hot to handle:http://snpy.tv/1So7Snu
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