#Hail vinted

[dia-oro]

aY boluda estoy igual, acá en mi país lo que quiero comprarme sale como 100lucas pero si lo comprará por shein o Aliexpress me saldría como 15lucas 😔😭😭😭

Siento tu dolor, shein, AliExpress y vinted son salva vidas y aún así la cosa es donde buscar que cosa porque a veces sale más caro en una página que en otra, fuerza pana, fuerzas, y siempre buscalo en inglés si no te aparece en español el objeto en la pagina.

🙂 solo no busques cosas que salen exclusivamente en Europa o estados Unidos en AliExpress, te va a doler lo que verás, a mí me dolió más de una vez.

[heylavellan]

2024 writing round up

saw @inquisimer doing this, so thought i'd jump in as well. i like stats (i study it!) so i thought it would be fun to see what i did this year, especially since i picked up writing again about in august! if you feel comfortable sharing your stats, feel free to jump in. thought i'd also tag a few people (lemme know if you wanna be untagged!!): @lasatfat, @miladydewintcr, @shouldaspunastory, and @rookfeathers

words published: 47,643

additional words written: 45,616

total words: 93,259

fandoms: oops all dragon age!! mostly inquisition, veilguard, and origins, but there was a smattering of awakening and the books (aka various authors)

highest kudos: this actually surprised me! it's a tie at 39 for both of my viperquin/tashur fics! My Personal Andraste and Business as Usual. Very thankful to the Viperquin brainrot community on Tumblr for being so supportive!! ;u;

highest hit oneshot: also Business as Usual! my rookanis fic, sous chef was a close second by 10 hits.

new things I tried: mostly getting into fic writing again! i started up in august after a two year hiatus from fan writing in general. i published my first smut, took part in gift exchanges, and tried an epistolary.

fic I spent the most time on: Two of Your Finest Vints for @dapolyshipping. two and a half months trying to figure out how dorikrembull worked in a way that felt genuine. it's established qpr krem bullee figuring out that they both want dorian. krem falls in love and bull slots in just right :')

favorite thing I wrote: it's really silly, but Pigeon Proofing. writing with shale's voice is so fucking fun, and the prompt i got for this one had me shitting myself with laughter. also, wynne and shale have a delightful friendship.

honourable mention to frocks, frills, and thrills, a fun 4+1 things fic written as a part of @black-emporium-exchange. i had fun researching the dresses and avoiding writing my masters thesis. also is the reason that LettersandCoffee and i have been designated to be friends by the universe!

favorite thing(s) I read: so so many! here's a selection below:

Wingin It by @lioncubofboone. Dorian/Cullen/Krem. Krem plays wingman for Dorian/Cullen but misses the fact that he is sorely in love with them :')

All Hail West Thedas by @blarrghe. Dorian/Adaar/Bull. When I say you need to consider gay cowboys, you need to consider gay cowboys!!

Excised by jtph. Couldn't find their tumblr, so I've linked their YouTube. Dorian/Anders, past!Handers, FenHawke. Modern AU where Anders is a brain trauma patient at the hospital Dorian works at and they spend more and more time together.

If You Want by romanticiding. Couldn't find socials. Alistair/m!Cousland. Bros help each other come, right?

Teagan's Chance by @cherieofthedragons. Teagan/f!Cousland. Meriana never wanted anyone during the Fifth Blight, but she wants Teagan :')

writing goals for 2025: finish "As the World Falls Down," a post DA:O zevwarden fic where alistair made the final sacrifice. publish at least one work per month. and do another gift exchange! they're fun

new works: 27

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[onlyseeinggodwhenlcome]

holy fuck i just sent back a vinted package and 5 mins after i got home its hailing like i cant even describe this i couldve died out there ummm

[fictionalred]

did the vinted items drop off and went to the store to buy groceries so all hail me

[alexandriasbox]

The History of Wireless Internet

By Eliana Z.

In just a couple of decades, wireless internet has taken over people’s lives. Humanity went from hardly ever using computers to constantly having a device that has the power to communicate with anyone in the world. Today, someone living in a place such as the United States would almost always go on a website or a social media app supported by wireless internet. Despite its importance in connecting people, though, it is rare that the average person understands how wireless internet works, or how it even came to be!

Wireless internet became significant in the late 20th century as well as the 21st century, but the concept existed back in the early 1900s when the famous inventor Nikola Tesla conceptualized a world wireless system. The idea, however, was not popular until the 1960s, when J.C.R. Licklider of MIT popularized the idea of a wireless Intergalactic Network of computers. His thoughts were eccentric and original, and some of his ideas, such as digital libraries and online banking, outlined many of the Internet’s current features. In 1968, he published a paper called “The Computer as a Communication Device,” which was an unthought-of concept in his field. He saw computer network applications as potential communication devices instead of the mere mathematical tools they were at the time, and brought awareness to the potential of such a device. Licklider is often hailed as the “father of the Internet,” and without his work, no one might have conceived of using computers for wireless internet. During his time as the director of the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), it was also his influence that ultimately resulted in the establishment of the ARPANET.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, or the ARPANET, was the first successful wireless network prototype of its kind, and the present-day wireless internet was modeled after it. A large part of its success was due to its use of packet switching, a new method of transmitting electronic information. Packet switching was first developed to replace the ethernet cable and was designed to address the flaws of circuit switch networks. It continues to be used today. It works by breaking data into small pieces called packets then using a store and forward technique to transmit information to the destination, where the packets are reassembled. This method was more efficient because in breaking the data up, it minimizes the transmission latency. Furthermore, it had more than one path for the data and as such, was more fault-tolerant than circuit switching. Due to its store and forward technique, if a packet is lost in transmission, it can be copied and retransmitted.

Despite its importance, packet switching was not the whole system. The actual protocol used by the Internet was and continues to be the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. It was developed by scientists Robert Khan, who also demonstrated the ARPANET at the International Computer Communication Conference, and Vinton Cerf, who later engineered the first commercial email service, MCI Mail. Through the use of it, computers can share data on a network, and it is what assembles the data packets in the correct order, making sure each packet is where it should be. The TCP/IP protocol uses packet switching, and each packet, called an IP datagram, contains header information and data. The header information lets the computer know the packet size, the destination, and the source. The IP protocol allows for the computer to read the IP address of the packet to obtain the destination, while the TCP protocol establishes the connection between the two computers in the first place. This protocol was a model for future networks for transmitting data through wireless internet and continues to be a large part of how wireless internet works today. For their work in developing wireless internet’s structure, both Robert Khan and Vinton Cerf received the U.S. National Medal of Technology, the ACM Alan M. Turing award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In modern times, wireless internet has about the same system, and packet switching still is essential, but the process was developed and now is a bit different. Wireless routers can deliver a strong signal to one’s computer and the radio waves from both the router and the computer allow web users to download and upload information from the Internet. These wireless internet signals can broadcast on both 2.4 and 5 gigahertz frequencies, which was developed to counter obstacles such as cement walls and other signals. Despite it having advanced to the point of being able to communicate to the other side of the planet, present day wireless internet is still largely similar to the ARPANET, and J.C.R. Licklider, Robert Khan, and Vinton Cerf all were crucial members of this journey.

Wireless internet has made a massive impact on communication around the world, and most people cannot go through their daily lives without their wireless internet devices anymore. Because it only needs an internet signal to work, it provides a quick and convenient way for people to communicate. As a result, one no longer needs to attach a confining cable to a computer to transfer information to someone physically unavailable. Furthermore, it allows anyone to interact with it, which lets all people that have compatible devices use it. A large portion of the world’s population uses wireless internet to communicate through websites, social media, and countless other features of it. J.C.R Licklider’s ambition for this concept helped it transform from a mere project to something that has made its way through every corner of life, and ultimately, it is one of the most influential communications technologies used today.

Citations:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/packet-switching-and-delays-in-computer-network/

https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/robert-kahn

https://www.internethalloffame.org/vint-cerf

https://www.computerhope.com/people/victor_hayes.htm

https://www.plus.net/home-broadband/content/history-of-the-internet/

https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-internet

https://time.com/3834259/wifi-how-works/

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Fictober 17

I should really stop posting these after midnight... buuut I suppose that would mean I'd need to finish them before midnight, too.

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Prompt 17 "There's something about them/him/her"

Dragon Age Inquisition set during my Singer of Magic fic

Rating general. Talk between spies

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No one noticed, but Bull's instincts were screaming. He just couldn't figure out why, of all people, it was Solas that produced this reaction. The quiet elven mage didn't seem the type to be spying, but if there was one thing Bull was good at- besides hitting things- it was at spotting a spy.

He didn't have access to the Qun's resources anymore, so he had to try to get information other ways. Chatting him up didn't do much, other than reveal just how intelligent he was under that unassuming demeanor. So Bull sent first Dalish, who came back not only empty handed, but thoroughly rebuffed.

Apparently, Solas didn't like the clans.

Bull sent Skinner next, thinking maybe she'd have better luck finding out something. She didn't get any further than Dalish.

Seeing a pattern, Bull stopped sending Chargers. Any more would have been showing his hand, anyway. He waited till most of Skyhold was asleep, and made his way to the Tower of Ravens, thinking that he'd leave an anonymous note to the spymaster pointing her towards Solas.

He moved quietly. A lot of people were surprised at how quiet Bull could be when he wished, and he preferred it that way. Better that they never expected the giant horned guy was able to get into all the places they'd never want him. Besides, it was useful when he went to see Dorian, since the Vint enjoyed his privacy.

At the top of the stairs, he paused. All he could hear were the sounds of the ravens roosting, but he could feel her there. He put his arms out to show he hadn't brought his axe, and quietly said into the darkness, "I'm not here for any trouble, Red."

After a moment, she glided into view. She didn't have any weapons drawn, but he knew she'd have at least two knives hidden on her person, probably many more.

She nodded towards her desk. "To what do I owe the pleasure?"

"Hm. Well, I wanted to ask, you've checked into everyone close to the Inquisitor, right?" He took a seat, and didn't follow her with his eyes when she moved around the room. It was a way to show her he trusted her at his back. That was important.

"Of course we did." Leliana placed a sturdy porcelain cup in front of him. He caught a whiff of Seheron black, not his favorite but definitely nostalgic for him.

"Would you take it amiss if I asked what you've found about the companions she takes out with her?" he asked casually. He took a sip of the tea, rumbling his pleasure.

She sat across from him, scrutinizing him over her own cup of tea. Placing it down on the saucer, she leaned forward. "Let us dispense with the back and forth. What do you suspect?"

Bull sighed. He liked the back and forth. But if she wanted blunt... "Solas. There's something about him that just doesn't seem square."

Leliana raised an eyebrow. "To be honest, he's one that we have found very little on," she said after a moment. "He claims to hail from a small place to the north, so small it couldn't even be properly called a village. When my agents visited, they did find the remains of a few buildings, but they were almost gone."

"That's it?" Bull asked unbelieving.

"He also claims to usually avoid most big settlements and cities, which seems to tally with the lack of information."

Bull growled to himself. "I don't like not knowing," he groused.

"I understand. I'm the same way. But there is nothing else we can find of him."

Bull didn't say anything, just finished his tea in a gulp and stood to leave.

Leliana tapped her tea cup with one finger thoughtfully, then glanced up at him. "Did you know, most bards that survive in Orlais retire at a fairly young age?" He paused, not sure why she changed the subject. "They cite all sorts of reasons for it, but the reality is that being in the life of a spy can make one see shadows and conspiracies where there are none." Bull grunted, turning towards the stairs. "Sometimes a man is just a man," Leliana called to him.

He wouldn't bet on it.

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Everything you need to know about Europe's new meme-ending war

Katie Collins, CNet:

First they came for the privacy violations, then they came for the memes.

The European Union is trying to pass a hotly debated law on copyright. The European Copyright Directive has been years in the making, and on Tuesday, March 26, the European Parliament is due to vote on the final version of it.

Companies including Google, along with free speech advocates and prominent figures within the EU have opposed parts of the draft legislation. The contentious nature of the legislation saw it morph through multiple iterations before the different EU institutions agreed on a version this week after three days of talks in France.

On June 20, 2018, the European Parliament's legal affairs committee voted to approve the draft legislation, but then a couple of weeks later, on July 5, the Parliament as a whole rejected the measure. That was hardly the end of the matter, and the individual EU institutions followed up with their own input.

Those votes happened just weeks after Europe's last big piece of internet-related legislation -- the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) -- kicked in.

Both the Copyright Directive and GDPR could dramatically affect and change things about the internet as we know it. But they also differ significantly, not just in scope, but also in how they're viewed and received by the world beyond Brussels.

GDPR has forced internet companies to scramble to fall in line with the new policy, but the privacy protections it promises internet users mean it's generally thought of as a consumer-friendly effort. Some hail it as evidence that the EU is leading the way when it comes to regulating the internet.

The pending Copyright Directive, however, is meeting with the opposite reaction.

What is the European Copyright Directive and why are people against it?

The EU Copyright Directive -- or to give its full name, the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market -- is Europe's attempt to harmonize copyright laws across all member states.  

The last EU-wide copyright law was put in place in 2001, when the internet was a dramatically different place to how it is today. It's designed to update the law and make it more relevant to the internet we know and love now, as well as to anticipate change down the line. The legislation, however, is vague -- one of the criticisms of it -- in terms of what actually needs to change and how it'll be upheld.

But there are two sections in particular that have drawn criticism for being overly harsh: Article 13, and to a lesser extent, Article 11. The impact, its critics say, could mean a substantially more closed internet of the future.

Who's in favor of the directive?

Alex Voss, rapporteur of the European Parliament for the copyright directive, for one. He suggested the law and believes its criticisms are highly exaggerated.

Many members of the European Parliament also support the overhaul of EU copyright law. How many exactly will be determined when it's put to a vote.

Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda is suggesting alternatives to both Article 11 and Article 13. She suggests her amendments "fairly balance the interests of different groups without compromising on fundamental rights."

What's Article 13?

Article 13 is the part of the directive that dictates how copyrighted content -- including TV shows, films, videos and pictures -- is shared on the internet. It dictates that anyone sharing copyrighted content must get permission from rights owners -- or at least have made the best possible effort to get permission -- before doing so.

It'd force all online platforms to police and prevent the uploading of copyrighted content, or make people seek the correct licenses to post that content. For the most part this would mean filters that check content as it's uploaded would be mandatory for platforms including Facebook, Instagram, GitHub, Reddit and Tumblr, but also many much smaller platforms.

YouTube already uses such a system -- called Content ID -- to protect copyright infringement, but the technology to do this is extremely expensive and has taken over 11 years to build and refine.

Who has a problem with it and why?

The concerns about Article 13 are wide-ranging, including unease about the cost of compliance for smaller companies, and out-and-out censorship of the internet.

In a letter addressed to the president of the EP, Antonio Tajani, around 70 internet luminaries, including Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee, expressed their concern that the provision could cause "substantial harm" to the internet.

"Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users," they said.

An organized campaign against Article 13 warns that it'd affect everything from memes to code, remixes to livestreaming. Almost 400,000 people have so far signed a Change.org petition against the provision.

The Max Planck Institute, a nonprofit group, notes that Article 13 could threaten freedom of expression and information as enshrined in the European Charter of Human Rights.

What's Article 11?

A second part of the draft legislation, Article 11, is also raising eyebrows. This section stipulates that companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft may have to pay publishers for showing snippets of news articles.

Who has a problem with it and why?

The objections to Article 11 are less vocal, but they're out there nonetheless. It's unclear what exactly would have to be licensed (snippets? headlines? links themselves?) so the jury is out on how much of an impact it might have.

"Platforms unable or unwilling to pay licensing fees would need to shut down or disallow users from sharing links with snippets," said Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda.

There are fears it could outlaw news aggregators as we know them or even prevent any sites other than giants like Google, which could afford a license, from linking to articles at all.

How will this affect Facebook and other social media companies?

The law would force social media platforms to take more direct responsibility for policing uploaded content. Big tech companies will likely put their own, costly solutions in place for doing this. Smaller companies would likely use a more centralized platform.

It'd also prevent social platforms from showing any kind of "snippet" of news stories, making it ultimately harder to share and link to content.

How will this affect me, an EU resident?

Everything you upload onto the internet will be checked for copyright beforehand, so this could mean no more making memes or edits for your favorite fan Tumblr, among many other things.

It could also mean the end of some of your favorite news aggregation tools and apps. When you click on a link, you may have little clue ahead of time what lies beyond.

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These are just some of the possibilities, but because of how vague the law is, it's hard to see how it might be upheld when the time comes.

How will this affect me, a non-EU resident?

Each territory is governed by its own copyright laws, so unless the directive causes the big internet companies to make some huge, fundamental changes, you might not be directly affected.

The internet may not have as much content generated from within Europe, however, so if you're a fan of British humor or Europe's take on popular memes, your experience of being online may be the poorer for it.

Will the directive definitely pass into law?

It's too early to say whether the Copyright Directive will pass. The July 5 vote by the EU Parliament was a narrow one: 318 against, 278 in favor, with 31 abstentions.

Now that the EU has agreed on a final text for the directive, the European Parliament will vote on the legislation in the next couple of weeks. If it passes, it'll come into force in each EU country over the next two years.

https://www.cnet.com/news/article-13-europes-hotly-debated-eu-copyright-law-explained/#ftag=CAD590a51e

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Make people valuable again

Make people valuable again

Vint Cerf Contributor Vinton Gray Cerf, a co-founder of i4j — innovation for jobs, is widely hailed as one of “the fathers of the Internet”. Cerf was a manager for the United States’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funding groups to develop TCP/IP technology and currently serves as the Chief Evangelist of the Internet …

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Make people valuable again

Make people valuable again

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Make people valuable again

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The future of business is good jobs as a service

The future of work is 5 billion customers looking for a good job

There is a disconnection between the pace and progress of the technical achievements made by innovators and entrepreneurs and the ways in which those technologies have added to human happiness.

We have increased our technological powers many times and still we are not happier; we do not have more time for the things we find meaningful.

We could use our powers for making each other — and thereby ourselves — more valuable, but instead we are fearing to lose our jobs to machines and be considered worthless by the economy.  The link between better technology and better lives overall has become so confusing that many people no longer reflect upon its existence.

We are co-founders of i4j — Innovation for Jobs, an eclectic community of thought leaders that has been exchanging ideas since 2012 about how innovation can disrupt unemployment and create better jobs. We believe we have found an approach for doing so that we lay forth in our new book, “The people centered economy – the new ecosystem for work.” The book presents a system of ideas, ranging from helicopter perspective down to details of scenarios. It puts theory in perspective with a number of relevant real-life case examples written by i4j members, founders of major companies, such as LinkedIn, startup CEOs, investors, foundation directors and social entrepreneurs.

The problem today, we suggest, is that our innovation economy is not primarily about making people more valuable; it is instead about reducing costs.

The main danger is easy to summarize: when workers are seen as a cost (which is now the case), cost-saving, efficient technologies will compete to lower their cost and thereby their value. The “better” the innovation, the lower their value. People are struggling to stay valuable in a changing world, and innovation is not helping them, except for the chosen few. The need to be valued and to be in demand are part of our human nature. Innovation can, and should, make people more valuable.

The economy is about people who need, want, and value each other. When we need each other more, the economy can grow. When we need each other less, it shrinks. We need innovation that makes people need each other more.

The purpose of innovation should be a sustainable economy, where we work with people we like, are valued by people we do not know and provide for the people we love

If innovation does this, we will prosper.

The present “task-centered “economy that sees people as cost is plagued by many symptoms of its lethal illness. We present several in the book, here is one of them.

The rise of the working middle class boosted by Roosevelt’s “New Deal” has been all but wiped out. People like blaming their political opponents for these kinds of things but the wealth gap has been growing steadily, since 1980, under Republicans and Democrats alike. No, this is beyond politics.

The root cause for all this is the very essence of our task-centered economy: placing tasks, products and other things at the center of the value proposition instead of people. It seems very natural to see it this way, because, after all,  you want your house painted and there are painters who want to paint it – how can it work any other way? Yet, wanting things done better and cheaper, combined with innovation that makes that happen, is the cause of the troubles.

The future of work is 5 billion customers looking for a good job

Companies will cut labor costs, as automation and offshoring lets them. When people earn less they will have less money to spend. The companies adapt to their shrinking purses by innovating still cheaper products and services and cutting labor costs even more. It is a spiral pointing downward toward a point zero where people earn and spend zero.

At the heart of this problem is the old saying, “A dollar saved is a dollar earned.” This maxim rings true to you and me in daily life, and it applies to companies. But paradoxically, in the economy, the opposite is true: a dollar saved is actually a dollar lost.

One person’s earning is always other people’s spending and if everyone spends less, people earn – on average – less.  Economies run on the spending and re-spending of the same money. Velocity counts. Economic growth is killed by companies that are competing solely for profits. We are not saying it’s wrong to save and not be wasteful, it’s good and necessary, but that is not earning. Saying that saving and earning are the same introduces the paradox and is a recipe for a failed economy.

It might not be possible to solve the growth-profit paradox in a task-centered economy, because it is inherent in the mindset. This mindset always looks at work and asks what is the most cost-efficient way of doing it. What keeps the economy from collapsing is the inherent limits of automating work. Workers have remained a necessary, if undesired, cost. But what will be the outcome if artificial intelligence allows almost all work to be automated? Now the task-centered mindset creates an implosion. With a task-centered mindset, innovation is set to kill economies.

Is the AI and machine learning revolution that seem to threaten our jobs different from previous industrial revolutions? The times are different but you may be shocked by the similarity in the patterns of change. Read the following excerpt of original text from the Communist Manifesto, where Bourgeoisie is replaced with Internet Entrepreneurs, Proletariat with On-Demand Workers, Civilization with Digital Economy, and Revolution with Disruption.

“Internet entrepreneurship cannot exist without constant disruption of markets, bringing uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions. Internet entrepreneurship has created the modern working class — the on-demand workers, who must sell themselves in bits and pieces. They have become a commodity, exposed to the whims of the market. Their work has lost all individual character, and all charm. It is only the most simple and most easily acquired work that is required of them. The on-demand worker’s production cost is limited almost entirely to his living costs. But the price of a commodity is in the long run equal to its production cost. Therefore, the more the individual character disappears from his work, the wage decreases in proportion. The lower middle class will gradually become on-demand workers, partly because their specialized skills are rendered worthless by new methods of production.”

The accuracy of this message from the grave is nothing less than spooky. The analogy is clear, as is the message it sends: Internet entrepreneurship is the new bourgeoisie.

Universal Basic Income (UBI) can provide basic security, but it can’t replace work. People will always need to be able to depend on strangers — even adversaries. The day people no longer need to work, why should they want to depend on people they don’t know or don’t like? Utopian ideas about UBI don’t provide an answer. Meaningful paid work does and is the glue that holds societies together. The utopian UBI discussion is just another symptom of lost bearings. We start debating which jobs can’t be done by machines, whether machines can become exactly like people, whether machines should pay taxes, and so on. These are all interesting philosophical questions, but discussing them will hardly solve the practical problem: innovation is disrupting society. We need practical solutions. The first requirement is to be able to see them.

A key reason behind the confusion is that lack of perspective; reality needs a new lens. We can’t explain what we see because the good old ideas that once made things understandable are now making the world unintelligible instead. This happens often in history — for example, people in the middle ages had long thought that the earth was the center of the universe, but as scientists traced their movements in the sky, the more complex and incomprehensible their orbits became. But simply by switching perspective, placing the sun at the center, complicated orbits were transformed into nearly-circular ellipses of great simplicity. This was the “Copernican Revolution”.

We suggest that doing a similar switch: that moving people to the center can be equally constructive. A “people-centered economy” view could enable us to simplify the innovation economy and engineer it better just as the “Copernican revolution” did for physics and astronomy. The economy is all about people, after all, so it seems only natural to place us at the center. And it does indeed make the economy look simpler, as shown in the figure.

Our present task-centered view splits people in two: a worker-persona who earns money on a labor market, and a consumer persona who spends the money on a consumer market: a disconnected reality in which we are living double lives! It might seem like the time- tested and obvious view, but it is actually complex, disconnected, and wrong.

Switch to the people-centered lens and we are whole again. The labor and consumer markets are replaced by a single market where people are offered two kinds of services, one for earning money and another for spending it. It is a less confusing picture. By definition, organizations serve us, not the other way around. They are the ecosystem in which we are embedded, which helps us create and exchange value between each other.

Just by switching to a people-centered lens, things fall more neatly into place around us:  

A people centered economy has a simple and handy definition of the economy: People create and exchange value, served by organizations.

Seen through the people-centered lens, the thorny question of the future of work is rephrased: “Is AI-innovation being applied more to earning or to spending?” The simple answer is “spending” and the straightforward conclusion is that we need more innovation that helps people earn. Through the people-centered lens an obvious “rule number one” of a sustainable innovation economy becomes clear to see:

We need as much innovation that helps us earn as there is innovation that helps us spend.

Today, we are surrounded by excellent innovation for spending, but there is very little good innovation for earning and none for earning a livelihood.  

We need startups that compete to innovate a really good earning-service, perhaps something like this:

“Dear Customer, we offer to help you earn a better living in more meaningful ways. We will use AI to tailor a job to your unique skills, talents, and passions. We will match you in teams with people you like working with. You can choose between kinds of meaningful work. You will earn more than you do today.   We will charge a commission. Do you want our service?”

The good news is that the world’s labor market is ready to be disrupted by innovative new ways to satisfy the customers’ needs and wants to earn a good livelihood.

And the market opportunity for this is huge! Here is an estimate: According to Gallup’s chairman Jim Clifton, of some five billion people in the world who are of working age, three billion want to work and earn income. Most of them want a full-time job with steady pay, but only 1.3 billion have one. Out of these 1.3 billion people with jobs, only 200 million are “engaged” in what they do for a living — i.e., they enjoy what they do and look forward to each working day. These lucky few, however, are outnumbered 2:1 by those who are disengaged, expressing displeasure and even undermining the work of others. The remainder of the population are simply disengaged from what they are doing, dragging their feet through the work day.

This is the sad state of the global workforce that creates roughly a hundred trillion dollars’ worth of products and services every year. Humanity is running at a fraction of its capacity. Imagine using modern information technology to tailor jobs to every one of the three billion people wanting to work — work that is well matched with their unique skills, talents, and passions; work in which they are assigned to valuable tasks and partnered with people they like to work with. In such a world, the average world citizen would be able to generate several times the per-person value created today. How much more value would they create than the unhappy, mismatched workforce of today?

A doubling of value creation is surely low, but even that figure adds $100 trillion in value to the world economy. If the job providers charged the same commission as Uber does, 25 percent, on the incomes people earned through their services, this would generate revenues of $50 trillion from commissions alone, plus additional revenues from add-on services, such as liability insurance and health benefits.

The Untapped $140 Trillion Innovation For Jobs Market

At this size, tailoring better ways for people to earn their livelihood would be the single largest market in the world. Even at only one percent commission, hardly noticeable for the earners, the potential market size is two trillion dollars. We think this should be an attractive opportunity for entrepreneurs, investors and governments to explore.

“Tailoring jobs” is a virgin market waiting to happen, because previously we did not have the technology for it. But now, since only a year or two, we have good enough tools. Increasing smartphone penetration and new capacities like cloud computing and big data analytics could, in principle, tailor rewarding jobs for every person on earth. Even if this is unrealistic today, it is still a huge potential market, even if it is applied to only a fraction of the world population looking for a good job. It will be wrong to assume that the workers must belong the well-educated elite, because they are already well served with good job offers. Quite the opposite, The big market for AI-tailored jobs is the vast majority of excluded, un- and underemployed people who are lacking the opportunity to live up to their abilities.

A simple innovation that helps many millions of these people can be a much better business than something advanced that helps the already well-served. It is similar to how, before the first industrial revolution, the most successful manufacturers sold expensive things to rich people.

With the introduction of mass production this changed in an, at the time, surprising and unforeseeable way, when selling cheap things to the masses became the new highway to success. Back then, the people running the old economies could hardly imagine how selling crafted goods to people with thin wallets could be better business than selling them to kings.

Today, as we are introducing mass-personalized goods and services, many business leaders will have great difficulties imagining how creating special jobs for people with little income can be better business than tailoring jobs for the engineers that companies compete for.  

We are at the beginning of a revolution in strength finding, education, matchmaking, HR, and new opportunities in a long-tail labor market.

The i4j community includes entrepreneurs and investors who are interested in exploring this opportunity and we are welcoming more to join. An ecosystem of critical mass can open the doors to a people-centered economy and we intend to help it happen.

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10 Best Apps forSelling Clothes

It should be no surprise there’s a huge market for reselling clothing.

　　Consider these latest figures from one of the top fashion resale sites, thredUP: The fashion resale industry totals about $20 billion in sales, alone, and is the biggest resale market in the US. Reselling clothes is growing 24-times faster than retail fashion, too.

　　You won’t find major retailers reselling clothing, though, and that’s where you and thousands more resellers come in.

　　Check out this current list and pick the best app to sell clothes. Which one fits your needs best?

　　Best App to Sell Clothes? Consider These

　　Poshmark

　　Poshmark is an app that enables people to sell items of clothing they no longer want. Items are listed by category making it easy for them to be found by shoppers. One standout feature of Poshmark is the app’s ‘Posh Parties’, whereby thousands of Poshmark users – typically women – gather several times a day to make new listings, share listings and shop together.

　　The RealReal

　　If you’re in the business of selling high-end, luxury items of clothing then The RealReal could be the right app for you as it specializes in listing pre-owned luxury clothing. All items listed on The RealReal are checked for authenticity by the app’s in-house team of luxury clothing specialists.

　　Vinted

　　You can sell or swap your used clothes on the Vinted app. Simply add a description and a photo of the item alongside the price. Once the item sells and the buyer receives it, the funds are transferred directly into your bank account or via PayPal.

　　eBay

　　With the eBay app you can sell clothing faster and more efficiently than ever. Simply create an eBay account, download the app, take photos of the clothes you want to sell, add descriptions and wait for buyers to start bidding. With eBay you have the option of selling items for a ‘Buy It Now’ price or putting them in an auction.

　　Depop

　　Sell old items of clothing and accessories from anywhere you want to with the Depop app. Depop refers to itself as a community of sellers and buyers and is the ideal place to sell vintage clothing.

　　OfferUp

　　If you are wanting to sell items of clothing locally, you can do so with ease and efficiency with the OfferUp app. People looking for specific clothes in your area use OfferUp to find products, meaning costly shipping fees are eliminated.

　　Etsy

　　Hailed as the “World’s most imaginative marketplace,” if you make and sell beautiful and individual handmade and vintage clothing, the Etsy app could be the best app to help sell your products.

　　letgo

　　You can sell used clothes and fashion accessories with the simple-to-use and intuitively-designed letgoapp. With over 100 million downloads and hundreds of millions of listings, letgo claims to the “biggest and fastest growing app for buying and selling locally.”

　　Bonanza

　　Like eBay, Bonanza is an auction-based ecommerce site that allows you to sell items of clothing on your own “webstore.” You only pay when items sell and with the Bonanza app you can manage your “webstore”, transactions and “b-mails” with greater efficiency and whilst on the go.

　　Rebelle

　　If you’re in the market of selling designer labels, clothes, bags, shoes, accessories or jewelry, then you may want to use the Rebelle app. Rebelle makes selling used items of clothing and accessories a luxury by offering a 48-hour guaranteed delivery service and chic mint green packaging – what more could you ask for!

Where to find the trending clothes to start your business? Try these wholesale companies to buy at cheap price.

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15 Best Apps for a Business Selling Clothes

It should be no surprise there’s a huge market for reselling clothing.

Consider these latest figures from one of the top fashion resale sites, thredUP: The fashion resale industry totals about $20 billion in sales, alone, and is the biggest resale market in the US. Reselling clothes is growing 24-times faster than retail fashion, too.

You won’t find major retailers reselling clothing, though, and that’s where you and thousands more resellers come in.

Check out this current list and pick the best app to sell clothes. Which one fits your needs best?

Best App to Sell Clothes? Consider These

ASOS Marketplace

Being home to the “Best independent brands and vintage boutiques,” if you’re wanting to sell vintage clothing, the ASOS Marketplace app can be a great place to list and sell your beautiful vintage items. ASOS Marketplace users tend to love clothing that’s retro, vintage and edgy.

Mercari

With the Mercari app you can list items of women’s, men’s and kid’s clothing in minutes. You can also ship items via printable shipping labels that go directly to the seller and enjoy fast payments.

Poshmark

Poshmark is an app that enables people to sell items of clothing they no longer want. Items are listed by category making it easy for them to be found by shoppers. One standout feature of Poshmark is the app’s ‘Posh Parties’, whereby thousands of Poshmark users – typically women – gather several times a day to make new listings, share listings and shop together.

The RealReal

If you’re in the business of selling high-end, luxury items of clothing then The RealReal could be the right app for you as it specializes in listing pre-owned luxury clothing. All items listed on The RealReal are checked for authenticity by the app’s in-house team of luxury clothing specialists.

Vinted

You can sell or swap your used clothes on the Vinted app. Simply add a description and a photo of the item alongside the price. Once the item sells and the buyer receives it, the funds are transferred directly into your bank account or via PayPal.

eBay

With the eBay app you can sell clothing faster and more efficiently than ever. Simply create an eBay account, download the app, take photos of the clothes you want to sell, add descriptions and wait for buyers to start bidding. With eBay you have the option of selling items for a ‘Buy It Now’ price or putting them in an auction.

Grailed

If you sell men’s fashion and streetwear, you may want to use the Grailed app, the latest men’s fashion marketplace. Simply create a Grail account, take a photo of the item you want to sell, add a description and wait for offers to come flooding in. Each transaction made on the Grail app is conducted through PayPal.

ThredUp

ThredUp is a fantastic app for those looking to buy and sell clothes, with more than 30,000 fashion brands using the app to sell women’s, children’s and teen’s clothing. On TredUp you can request a “Clean Out Kit”, where you fill a bag with unwanted clothing, send it the ThredUp which categorizes and lists your items. When your items sell you earn a percentage of the sale price.

Depop

Sell old items of clothing and accessories from anywhere you want to with the Depop app. Depop refers to itself as a community of sellers and buyers and is the ideal place to sell vintage clothing.

OfferUp

If you are wanting to sell items of clothing locally, you can do so with ease and efficiency with the OfferUp app. People looking for specific clothes in your area use OfferUp to find products, meaning costly shipping fees are eliminated.

Etsy

Hailed as the “World’s most imaginative marketplace,” if you make and sell beautiful and individual handmade and vintage clothing, the Etsy app could be the best app to help sell your products.

letgo

You can sell used clothes and fashion accessories with the simple-to-use and intuitively-designed letgo app. With over 100 million downloads and hundreds of millions of listings, letgo claims to the “biggest and fastest growing app for buying and selling locally.”

Bonanza

Like eBay, Bonanza is an auction-based ecommerce site that allows you to sell items of clothing on your own “webstore.” You only pay when items sell and with the Bonanza app you can manage your “webstore”, transactions and “b-mails” with greater efficiency and whilst on the go.

Rebelle

If you’re in the market of selling designer labels, clothes, bags, shoes, accessories or jewelry, then you may want to use the Rebelle app. Rebelle makes selling used items of clothing and accessories a luxury by offering a 48-hour guaranteed delivery service and chic mint green packaging – what more could you ask for!

Vestiaire Collective

The Vestiaire Collective app allows you to sell vintage clothing, men’s clothing, women’s clothing and designer labels when you are on the go. Vestiaire Collective proudly asserts to be the “World’s largest collection of pre-owned luxury fashion,” so if you’re not yet using this app, start using it!

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