In January 2016, the famous Y Combinator business incubator announced its plans to finance a long-term study on unconditional income. Partly - to dispel the fears that automation of jobs will make people unemployed.

Dozens of startups are trying to take their place in the market. Giant companies are not behind either Photo: Benoit Tessier / Reuters This is a little reminiscent of the principle of communicating vessels. The Americans are gradually abandoning alcohol and sweet drinks like cola, as evidenced by the fall of their sales. But the consumption of beneficial drinks (or at least not harmful) is growing.

The United States can return to the “maximum pressure” strategy to the DPRK. But there are problems with Seoul, Beijing and Moscow Kim Jong -un and Donald Trump.

Since 2015, Russia has been conducting "exercises" in Syria. “In principle, we can“ train ”there for a long time without significant damage to our budget,” said Vladimir Putin. Before Syria, the military, special services, private formations and state units have learned a lot in the Crimea and the Donbass. Then the training developments of minerals in the Central African Republic and Burkina-Faso began in exchange for military goods and power support.

In the last article, I wrote that, despite the growth of inequality in income, the inequality in the consumption of real benefits in developed countries is rather reduced. The inequality of income is converted into symbolic consumption and unequal rights in decision -making. This article is a view of the same processes on the other hand and is devoted to the inequality of the contribution to the creation of public wealth.

To the publication of the correspondence of journalists killed in the TsA. When responsibility for the tragedy can lie on the opponents of the authorities, they behave as shamefully as power itself Farewell to Russian journalists killed in the Tsar Anvar Galeev/TASS Everyone expected that they would at least cancel KVN on TV, but KVN, of course, showed - songs, dancing, fun. And there were no emergency news releases on that day, on the contrary,.

Vladimir Putin, as promised, made a television person to the country about pension reform. He tried to be convincing, explaining the need to raise the retirement age, and proposed several softening reform of measures. All according to the script The government introduced a bill on pension reform on June 16 to the State Duma. He suggested a phased increase in the retirement age for men - from 60 to 65 by 2028, for women - from 55 to 63 years by 2034.

“The sovereign should be in friendship with the people, otherwise he will be overthrown in difficult times,” wrote Niccolo Machiavelli, who believed that lies and manipulation should accompany any high -ranking politician if he wants to successfully rule his country. It turns out that in our time, statesmen who want to gain the confidence of the population use techniques that illusionists use in their speeches. Here are a few examples.