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From hustle to handouts: how online begging became a career

Once upon a time, asking strangers for money was considered an act of desperation. Today, it has been repackaged, polished, and sold as content creation, community support, or “fan engagement.” The tools are sleek, the slogans are empowering, but the…

Europe vs Innovation: how we lost the plot 

Welcome to the era of self-sabotage Somewhere along the way, Europe stopped dreaming. Not suddenly, not loudly, but gradually, silently, and with bureaucratic elegance. As the United States shaped the internet, and China laid the groundwork for AI dominance,…

Precarity as a business model: the true cost of the gig economy

In the glowing narrative of modern capitalism, the entrepreneur who "disrupts" markets and builds multi-billion-dollar platforms is glorified. Their products promise efficiency, freedom, and access, a new economy built on demand and technology. But behind the sheen of innovation…