Fazila Farouk

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

Very interesting. The future of finance, maybe also economy/society, looks very different under Gen Z.

https://t.co/tmKwbgdKdJ

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

New report on mobility in #pandemic era. “Widening gulf between movers & non-movers...pandemic deeply curtailed mobility prospects of some groups...including refugees & migrant workers, while having little effect on business travellers & others with resources...”

[Amy Pope @IOMchief]

COVID-19 has gravely impacted global mobility, stranding millions of people overseas. A new report by IOM & @migrationpolicy highlights how border restrictions evolved in 2020, and the ways governments are attempting to restart mobility in 2021 and beyond: https://t.co/T0evFXA5bZ

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

Very good question being put to @SweepSouthSA. Interesting thread also.

Platform workers are generally exploited despite the virtue signaling of platform owners.

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

Some great left analysis here.

VIDEO: The Reddit Revolution, GameStop and Melvin Capital - Glenn Greenwald https://t.co/iPIfO0Otyg

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

Great discussion and analysis of #GameStop story from ⁦@AOC⁩ and guests. https://t.co/99WknnYobB

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

Great breakdown of the GameStop story. Take a look @guy_called_adam

[Josh Gross @endtwist]

So many folks (esp. the media) are missing the complete backstory on $GME and how we got here.

This has been simmering for over a year and the story behind it is great. I’ve been tracking this since September and devoured all of the details from the origin through today.

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

@alexcomninos What great news 🤩 Congratulations Alex, Anita and Levi! Wishing you happy marriage, happy family, happy life 😘

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

Charity will never be better than justice.

https://t.co/7CWIbBKw2l

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

Elon Musk is the product of public schooling in Africa...just saying.

https://t.co/WwxRHy8t9M

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

Today my Facebook and Twitter feeds are filled with schadenfreude. Good!

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

Interesting.
Sustainable and social impact economic growth. Not GDP growth.
#degrowth
#slowgrowth

[MIT Technology Review @techreview]

Can capitalism actually solve the world’s biggest problems? It hasn’t been—and economists are questioning one of its basic precepts. https://t.co/uWjyPEbvsB

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

The 4-day work week together with #UBI could really make inroads in the automation problem. Hope this experiment scales globally and especially in developing countries where the outlook is so much more conservative.

[Pilita Clark @pilitaclark]

The 4-day working week has just had one of its biggest boosts yet as Unilever launches a year-long trial in New Zealand https://t.co/bBEDqBVZmZ via @financialtimes

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

How are we not embarrassed by this?

[Informal Economy @EconomyInformal]

Income Inequality

South Africa🇿🇦: 0.62
Chile🇨🇱: 0.46
Mexico🇲🇽: 0.46
Turkey🇹🇷: 0.40
USA🇺🇸: 0.39
UK🇬🇧: 0.37
Japan🇯🇵: 0.34
Italy🇮🇹: 0.33
Spain🇪🇸: 0.33
Russia🇷🇺: 0.33
Canada🇨🇦: 0.31
Germany🇩🇪: 0.29
France🇫🇷: 0.29
Sweden🇸🇪: 0.28
Finland🇫🇮: 0.27
Denmark🇩🇰: 0.26
Slovakia🇸🇰: 0.22

@OECD

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

@alexcomninos Congrats Alex. So happy for you. No rule book for parenting. Just follow your instincts. You make a great dad! 👨‍👩‍👦 💯👍

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

Boycott @amazon on #BlackFriday in solidarity with exploited workers in the #PlatformEconomy. #WorkersRights ✊

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Amazon is not merely a monopolist. It is something far, far worse. It is a pillar of the new Techno-feudalism taking us over. Today, Black Friday, we do not even visit its website. In solidarity with the workers and activists organised by the @ProgIntl
https://t.co/58dKjzHCmO

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

Interesting statistic. Happy birthday SA #Internet!

[ZA Cities @ZA_CR]

Happy 29th Birthday SA internet!

Today marks the 29th birthday of the Internet in South Africa since its first connection in 1991. There are currently 36.54 million internet users and the internet penetration in South Africa reached an estimated 62% in January 2020.

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

@pabloaguerar Congratulations Pablo 🎉

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

When the apple falls further from the tree.

“Senator Harris, who declined to comment for this story, was one of the more moderate Democrats in the 2020 field of presidential candidates, and has cast her political outlook in decidedly pragmatic terms.”

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris's parents grew up under British colonial rule on different sides of the planet. They were each drawn to Berkeley, California, and became part of a Black intellectual circle that shaped the rest of their lives. https://t.co/htEYwWbmMO

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

😂😂😂

[Jayati Ghosh @Jayati1609]

Received on WhatsApp today

[Fazila Farouk @fazila_farouk]

Couldn’t agree more.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

A quarter of a million Americans have died. The US President is a self evident catastrophe. If the Democrats cannot win a landslide in these circumstances, they should be beyond ashamed.