Buy Power

A Job You Can Buy And Sell

No Dumb Ideas | 25th March 2025 | U

What if the job market was a true market, where jobs could be bought by the highest bidder? An intriguing thought experiment. Applicants would seek financing and apply to purchase an entry-level job, say, from someone ready to trade upwards in their career — similar to how the housing market works now. Recruiters become brokers. A great system for job-holding incumbents, terrible for everybody else (2,500 words)

Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone!

Granular Power

Michaela Büsse | e-flux | 25th March 2025

The politics of sand is "gritty". Once just sediment, it is now precious. Cities like Dubai and Singapore are built on imported sand. There is a black market in sand, sand mafias, and sand crimes. We use it to reclaim land and stave off coastal erosion as well as to build roads and skyscrapers. Sand shapeshifts: a cheap resource in one place, it becomes valuable land and property elsewhere (3,600 words)