25. The buoyant never-never

This week Jonathan and Doug ask whether Buy Now Pay Later is a Good Thing, consider the 4 day workweek, get excited about the Pixel 6 with Tensor; plus: Amazon’s big workforce, time crystals, Apple child safety.

After a non-sponsor segment we turn to This Week in Crypto and survey a buoyant market, ethereum post-London, more NFT buzz, the Biden infrastructure bill’s crypto provisions, and how to create passive income. We close out as usual with Shitcoin or Fakecoin.

Links we mentioned:

Book: Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time:
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0865N4LBN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_WKZ6H0GZGQ4YY2CM9QSJ

Book: Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It:
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B077T7HQM6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_XRGM96VR628T923RQWWY

Book: The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism:
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01HUC1CHA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_GKSN23EMHVHSMJG8H2KN

1 in every 153 American workers in employed by Amazon:
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-number-1-of-153-us-workers-head-count-2021-7?amp

Google academic collaboration demonstrates time crystals (not yet peer reviewed):
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13571

Apple on-device scanning for CSAM:
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

Revolut is what your bank is supposed to look like now:
https://revolut.com/referral/douglaq2n!AUG1GB

What activities are burning the most Ether? (spoilers: it’s NFTs):
https://ultrasound.money

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