#finance

anonymiss@despora.de

Late Stage #Capitalism Is Weird Capitalism

source: https://marker.medium.com/late-stage-capitalism-is-weird-capitalism-64a72040dcc7

When three index managers plan the economy on behalf of the 50% who own any shares (or, more realistically, on the 10% who own 86% of the #shares), they leave the rest of us in the cold. Braun suggests that the Big Three “should be expected to push the #economy towards the lowest sustainable #labor share.” And yeah, the rise of #wage #stagnation tracks the growth of index funds.

#news #finance #market #work #money #power #politics

jirikiha@diasp.org

Going to get a little political here, to avoid derailing another person's post.

Student Loans

We've banned certain predatory loan practices, like setting less than interest minimums, except for student loans.
If someone buys frivolous things, then realizes they can't afford them, they can have the debt discharged through bankruptcy. But if they try to improve their skills and knowledge with a college education, and find the promised jobs aren't there after graduation, good luck with that.
We have credit limits to help prevent people from getting loans they couldn't possibly pay back, except for student loans.
You can't drink until you're 21 because young adults aren't responsible enough, but we allow teenagers to sign their financial futures away through student loans.
Colleges tout job placement numbers that aren't quite real, and advertise the wonderful average wages graduates earn, but you don't learn the difference between average and median until that statistics class...
We expect students to understand what they are getting into, but personal finances are not taught in grade school, nor required in high school. I've heard, "parents should teach their kids finances" but in the real world, most parents don't know finances to be able to teach their kids.
An excellent computer in 2000 was $2,000. I'm writing this on a laptop thousands of times more powerful that costs half that price.
Colleges now charge over double what they did then. Why is it getting more expensive instead of cheaper when our educational tools are cheaper?
Where is the money going? Not to the teachers. I had a teacher who drove on bald tires because they didn't have the funds to replace them.

Colleges prey on the uneducated.

Student loan companies prey on the disadvantaged.

President Biden needs to fulfill his promise and forgive all or part of the student debt. At the same time, we need protection from loan shark practices that are punishing the people who work hard and try to achieve more. Fix the educational system so we don't end up with this student loan crisis again.
#education #politics #finance

anonymiss@despora.de

#iCloud #crypto wallet #attack saw $650K stolen from trader within seconds; #MetaMask #vulnerability revealed

source: https://9to5mac.com/2022/04/19/icloud-crypto-wallet-attack-metamask/

An estimated $650,000-worth of cryptocurrencies and NFTs were gone in an instant.

...

The answer, as unearthed by a crypto #security expert who goes by Serpent, is that using the MetaMask app on #iPhone automatically stores a seed phrase file onto iCloud […]

#software #fail #news #finance #hack #hacker

anonymiss@despora.de

Elon #Musk will cut board member salary to $0 if #Twitter bid succeeds

source: https://metro.co.uk/2022/04/19/elon-musk-will-cut-board-member-salary-to-0-if-twitter-bid-succeeds-16493239/

‘Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year saved right there,’ Musk tweeted in response to a user’s post criticising the board members who are each paid between $250,000 and $300,000 a year.

Twitter is so obviously overvalued and will never make significant profits. For Musk, the #company is only interesting to make trouble with Tweets just like #Trump did. Amazing that he doesn't set up his own #Mastodon server with his fanboys and mirror that to Twitter.

#software #economy #money #finance #media #news #trouble

financeoptions@nota.404.mn

#finance #eBooks #business

    With a focus on China's demand, oil extends its advance beyond $100.

Oil prolonged its climb above $one hundred a barrel as the international energy agency trimmed its estimates of global crude call for however China presented a demonstration that it’s probable to use economic policy to stimulate boom.

Crude prolonged profits Wednesday after a 6% surge inside the previous consultation. China’s cabinet said it might reduce banks’ reserve requirement ratio in a further sign that the us of a’s important bank is in all likelihood to add economic stimulus to reinforce the financial system, in step with state-run television. The IEA reduce its forecast for the world’s crude desires this 12 months after Beijing reimposed lockdowns to include the unfold of Covid-19.

That came an afternoon after Russia said peace talks with Ukraine are “at a dead end.” the world’s top independent oil dealer -- Vitol group -- intends to stop buying and selling Russian-starting place crude and products by means of the cease of this year, the modern sign of investors slowly extricating themselves from managing Russian barrels.

Even earlier than the warfare, the oil market became robust as the restoration in call for from Covid-19 helped to drain inventories. With the battle in Europe rippling via worldwide markets and fanning inflation, governments lately introduced plans to tap strategic oil stockpiles.

“The market does look more balanced, but we have to remember that oil demand continues to grow this year,” given the restoration from Covid-19, Toril Bosoni, head of the IEA’s oil market department stated. “With all the uncertainty on each the demand and the deliver aspect, the SPR releases go a few way to create comfort for the marketplace.”

For now, the marketplace’s consciousness is squarely on traits in Russian manufacturing and chinese call for. at the same time as there aren't any symptoms Russian exports are starting to collapse simply but, Indian refiners are most of the few last customers. but, they aren’t seeing the file discounts being offered in Europe.

one by one, the american Petroleum Institute stated U.S. crude stockpiles rose by way of 7.76 million barrels last week, in step with people acquainted with the information. gasoline inventories contracted with the aid of 5.05 million barrels, the API said. The energy information administration is scheduled to release reputable records later Wednesday.

canoodle@nerdpol.ch

BigData in Africa: without any protection - Shivani Siroya TEDx - "A smart new business loan for people with no credit" - When AI takes over - and calls all the shots - and nobody knows why it decides what it decides - not just Africa - bank accounts AI (over)blocked

the risks of all digital (no cash) payment systems & amok AI:

“This happens quite often with customers of the Cashgroup banks (@DeutscheBank / @Postbank / @Commerzbank / @Comdirect) as soon as their algorithms hit your account is directly without giving exact reasons – then sense” (bank account blocked – without any reason given #what the serious f***? all gone mad?) (src: twitter)

Shivani Siroya@TEDx: “A smart new business loan for people with no credit”

this sounds way better than… (clever marketing) reality…

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=kSR8G8mfp84

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=kSR8G8mfp84

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=kSR8G8mfp84

reality…

[video width=”628″ height=”368″ mp4=”https://dwaves.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022-03-23\_Tala\_mobile\_lending\_App\_in\_Kenya.mp4″\]\[/video\]

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=EV88RmUzRP8

  • “alright…” (no not alright)
  • thanks for the video ktn, great journalism needs to tell the truth! not display marketing only!
  • “it is not a app where you can get money, and live of the face of the earth…”
    • “you will delete the application and nobody will know that you have taken that amount? no, your profile still exists”
  • “risk based pricing, we are able to assess the risk of the borrower, from 15% to 5%”
  • Q: “what would give me 90% (rating)?”
  • A: “this is machine learning, there is no human intervention… the machine sends your data through our database and will score you… we pick thousands of thousands digital datapoints, that makes it predictive, accureate” (but nobody knows (not even the developers!!?!?!?!?) why it decides to give you a B and not an A rating)
  • so on the one hand it is good, Africa does not care, how much data is collected about individuals, because that’s the only way they can get a loan, because banks EVERYWHERE simply FAIL to do their CORE TASK:
    • bankers should look at the people and their projects and then lend money (good not too greedy conditions).
  • Africa’s governments probably have bigger problems, but they also need to protect the data of their citizens from big corporations trying to exploit it.
  • a reality where AI is making ALL decisions… not sure that will be a good reality, probably not.
  • it is not the first time, AI get’s things wrong: (the risk is that users blindly trust it)

https://dwaves.de/2021/03/29/computers-ai-are-no-way-perfect-doctors-judges-and-police-who-blindly-trust-ai-results-from-face-recognition-to-ebay-offensive-language-detection-nuclear-world-war-3-could-could-have-been-sta/

this video gives interesting insights into everyday life in Africa, Kenya….

https://dwaves.de/upload/doku/2020-10-20-Africa-walk-over-Market-Nairobi-Kenya-Africa-aired-reddit.mp4

#linux #gnu #gnulinux #opensource #administration #sysops #africa #ted #tedx #alternatives #loans #afrika #tala #finance #credit #score #bigdata #privacy #surveillance #apps #tracking #mobile #lending #banks #bank #deutschebank #commerzbank #comdirect #postbank #cashgroup

Originally posted at: https://dwaves.de/2022/03/23/data-protection-clearly-does-not-exist-in-africa-shivani-siroya-tedx-a-smart-new-business-loan-for-people-with-no-credit-when-ai-takes-over-and-calls-all-the-shots-and-nobody-knows-why-i/

canoodle@nerdpol.ch

BigData in Africa: without any protection - Shivani Siroya TEDx - "A smart new business loan for people with no credit" - When AI takes over - and calls all the shots - and nobody knows why it decides what it decides

Shivani Siroya@TEDx: “A smart new business loan for people with no credit”

this sounds way better than… (clever marketing) reality…

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=kSR8G8mfp84

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=kSR8G8mfp84

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=kSR8G8mfp84

reality…

[video width=”628″ height=”368″ mp4=”https://dwaves.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022-03-23\_Tala\_mobile\_lending\_App\_in\_Kenya.mp4″\]\[/video\]

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=EV88RmUzRP8

  • “alright…” (no not alright)
  • thanks for the video ktn, great journalism needs to tell the truth! not display marketing only!
  • “it is not a app where you can get money, and live of the face of the earth…”
    • “you will delete the application and nobody will know that you have taken that amount? no, your profile still exists”
  • “risk based pricing, we are able to assess the risk of the borrower, from 15% to 5%”
  • Q: “what would give me 90% (rating)?”
  • A: “this is machine learning, there is no human intervention… the machine sends your data through our database and will score you… we pick thousands of thousands digital datapoints, that makes it predictive, accureate” (but nobody knows (not even the developers!!?!?!?!?) why it decides to give you a B and not an A rating)
  • so on the one hand it is good, Africa does not care, how much data is collected about individuals, because that’s the only way they can get a loan, because banks EVERYWHERE simply FAIL to do their CORE TASK:
    • bankers should look at the people and their projects and then lend money (good not too greedy conditions).
  • Africa’s governments probably have bigger problems, but they also need to protect the data of their citizens from big corporations trying to exploit it.
  • a reality where AI is making ALL decisions… not sure that will be a good reality, probably not.
  • it is not the first time, AI get’s things wrong: (the risk is that users blindly trust it)

https://dwaves.de/2021/03/29/computers-ai-are-no-way-perfect-doctors-judges-and-police-who-blindly-trust-ai-results-from-face-recognition-to-ebay-offensive-language-detection-nuclear-world-war-3-could-could-have-been-sta/

this video gives interesting insights into everyday life in Africa, Kenya….

https://dwaves.de/upload/doku/2020-10-20-Africa-walk-over-Market-Nairobi-Kenya-Africa-aired-reddit.mp4

#linux #gnu #gnulinux #opensource #administration #sysops #africa #ted #tedx #alternatives #loans #afrika #tala #finance #credit #score #bigdata #privacy #surveillance #apps #tracking #mobile #lending

Originally posted at: https://dwaves.de/2022/03/23/data-protection-clearly-does-not-exist-in-africa-shivani-siroya-tedx-a-smart-new-business-loan-for-people-with-no-credit-when-ai-takes-over-and-calls-all-the-shots-and-nobody-knows-why-i/

canoodle@nerdpol.ch

BigData in Africa: without any protection - Shivani Siroya TEDx - "A smart new business loan for people with no credit" - When AI takes over - and calls all the shots - and nobody knows why it decides what it decides

Shivani Siroya@TEDx: “A smart new business loan for people with no credit”

this sounds way better than… (clever marketing) reality…

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=kSR8G8mfp84

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=kSR8G8mfp84

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=kSR8G8mfp84

reality…

[video width=”628″ height=”368″ mp4=”https://dwaves.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022-03-23\_Tala\_mobile\_lending\_App\_in\_Kenya.mp4″\]\[/video\]

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=EV88RmUzRP8

  • “alright…” (no not alright)
  • thanks for the video ktn, great journalism needs to tell the truth! not display marketing only!
  • “it is not a app where you can get money, and live of the face of the earth…”
    • “you will delete the application and nobody will know that you have taken that amount? no, your profile still exists”
  • “risk based pricing, we are able to assess the risk of the borrower, from 15% to 5%”
  • Q: “what would give me 90% (rating)?”
  • A: “this is machine learning, there is no human intervention… the machine sends your data through our database and will score you… we pick thousands of thousands digital datapoints, that makes it predictive, accureate” (but nobody knows (not even the developers!!?!?!?!?) why it decides to give you a B and not an A rating)
  • so on the one hand it is good, Africa does not care, how much data is collected about individuals, because that’s the only way they can get a loan, because banks EVERYWHERE simply FAIL to do their CORE TASK:
    • bankers should look at the people and their projects and then lend money (good not too greedy conditions).
  • Africa’s governments probably have bigger problems, but they also need to protect the data of their citizens from big corporations trying to exploit it.

this video gives interesting insights into everyday life in Africa, Kenya….

https://dwaves.de/upload/doku/2020-10-20-Africa-walk-over-Market-Nairobi-Kenya-Africa-aired-reddit.mp4

#linux #gnu #gnulinux #opensource #administration #sysops #africa #ted #tedx #alternatives #loans #afrika #tala #finance #credit #score #bigdata #privacy #surveillance #apps #tracking #mobile #lending

Originally posted at: https://dwaves.de/2022/03/23/data-protection-clearly-does-not-exist-in-africa-shivani-siroya-tedx-a-smart-new-business-loan-for-people-with-no-credit-when-ai-takes-over-and-calls-all-the-shots-and-nobody-knows-why-i/

canoodle@nerdpol.ch

BigData in Africa: without any protection - Shivani Siroya TEDx - "A smart new business loan for people with no credit" - When AI takes over - and calls all the shots - and nobody knows why it decides what it decides

Shivani Siroya@TEDx: “A smart new business loan for people with no credit”

this sounds way better than… (clever marketing) reality…

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=kSR8G8mfp84

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=kSR8G8mfp84

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=kSR8G8mfp84

reality…

[video width=”628″ height=”368″ mp4=”https://dwaves.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022-03-23\_Tala\_mobile\_lending\_App\_in\_Kenya.mp4″\]\[/video\]

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=EV88RmUzRP8

  • “alright…” (no not alright)
  • thanks for the video ktn, great journalism needs to tell the truth! not display marketing only!
  • “it is not a app where you can get money, and live of the face of the earth…”
    • “you will delete the application and nobody will know that you have taken that amount? no, your profile still exists”
  • “risk based pricing, we are able to assess the risk of the borrower, from 15% to 5%”
  • Q: “what would give me 90% (rating)?”
  • A: “this is machine learning, there is no human intervention… the machine sends your data through our database and will score you… we pick thousands of thousands digital datapoints, that makes it predictive, accureate” (but nobody knows (not even the developers!!?!?!?!?) why it decides to give you a B and not an A rating)
  • so on the one hand it is good, Africa does not care, how much data is collected about individuals, because that’s the only way they can get a loan, because banks EVERYWHERE simply FAIL to do their CORE TASK:
    • bankers should look at the people and their projects and then lend money (good not too greedy conditions).
  • Africa’s governments probably have bigger problems, but they also need to protect the data of their citizens from big corporations trying to exploit it.

#linux #gnu #gnulinux #opensource #administration #sysops #africa #ted #tedx #alternatives #loans #afrika #tala #finance #credit #score #bigdata #privacy #surveillance #apps #tracking #mobile #lending

Originally posted at: https://dwaves.de/2022/03/23/data-protection-clearly-does-not-exist-in-africa-shivani-siroya-tedx-a-smart-new-business-loan-for-people-with-no-credit-when-ai-takes-over-and-calls-all-the-shots-and-nobody-knows-why-i/