Best unemployment books according to redditors

We found 23 Reddit comments discussing the best unemployment books. We ranked the 6 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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u/BraveSirRobin · 11 pointsr/ukpolitics

> Still you have to give it to the propaganda team inside Hollywood/Main stream media in the "land of the free" horseshit.


America hurts my brain. We're talking about a nation that banned pinball for being immoral.

> The USA is a society that imprisons more people per capita than any society on earth.

Not prison, slaves. When the US "ended" slavery they instantly brought in the chain gang as a replacement. To keep the numbers available they passed a whole bunch of laws to make sure black folk could be arrested and sent to work in the fields come harvest time.

When those laws were struck down following the civil rights movement they then started the drug wars.


Refusing to work results in torture such as solitary confinement with no basic hygiene facilities. With no prison income you cannot even buy toothpaste. Last I heard they were considering extending this to toilet paper as well.

Here's what they have them do:

> One report[19] detailed a FPI operation at a California prison in which inmates de-manufactured computer cathode-type monitors. Industry standard practice for this mandates a mechanical crushing machine to minimize danger from flying glass, with an isolated air system to avoid releasing lead, barium, phosphor compounds to the workplace atmosphere. At the FPI facility prisoners demanufactured CRTs with hammers.

In addition the government makes extensive use of this slave labour to keep the military supplied with various forms of equipment. They even used to have a law forcing them to try to make use of prison labour first before being allowed to ask the private sector. Car license plates are usually made by them as well, so every time you see an American car it's worth reminding yourself that it's in-part built by slavery.

u/andreiknox · 4 pointsr/Romania

Humans need not apply e o carte bună pe care-o recomand despre AI și impactul său asupra societății noastre. Atinge și subiectul "inteligenței" din inteligența aritficială și cred că ți-ar răspunde la multe întrebări.

Pe scurt, trebuie să faci diferența între inteligență și conștiință. Când spui:

> Mie mi se pare o trivializare a conceptului de inteligenta.

trebuie să înțelegi că în comparație cu un AI ca Watson noi suntem de o inteligență trivială. Pur și simplu nu avem viteza de "gândire" similară lui, nu avem capacitatea de stocare a informației, dar compensăm prin conștiință - unui AI poți să îi dai o comandă și el va găsi căi (mai simple sau mai complicate) s-o ducă la îndeplinire, dar nu va gândi pentru sine așa cum o facem noi. Cel puțin nu generația asta de AI.

> Nu va enerveaza ca toata lumea se pare se da in vant dupe dansa?

Ba da, dar asta e natura capitalismului - oamenii găsesc căi prin care să-și vândă serviciile și produsele, chit că nu sunt sinceri. Trebuie totuși să faci distincție între AI ca buzzword din marketing și AI ca tehnologie pe care eu, unul, o văd ca următorul salt imens în civilizația noastră de la revoluția industrială încoace.

u/contractordude · 4 pointsr/Carpentry

Off the top, I have to say that I really don't like the tone of your post, it shows a lack of respect and ignorance for how much work and capital the owner of a company has to put in. Being good at business doesn't mean that you're the best technical carpenter or even a carpenter at all. It's like the typical restaurant feud where the kitchen staff doesn't appreciate what the wait staff do and visa-versa, while not realizing that one would not exist without the other.

Sales and dealing with clients is much more difficult than most give credit for. Knowing how to price things to make money, being able to work with all different types of personalities and keeping a level head under very stressful situations are skills we don't learn in the field. Not to mention the financial risk on every project, accounting, advertising, driving all over hells half acre to price jobs you might not get...etc.

All this to say, take a little time to research and learn what goes into the front end of a business that is successful. A few books you might want to check out:

1)Markup and Profit: A Contractors Guide by Michael Stone

2) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey

3) Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz

4) Running a Successful Construction Company by David Gerstel

5) How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie


Most important though is to find an accountant and learn what goes into accounting. Of all the things that I've seen take down really good carpenters going out on their own, accounting is #1. They don't put money away to pay taxes end up in a robbing peter to pay paul situation, or just don't know what their overhead is to charge appropriately to cover it as well as make a profit and cover their own wage.

As far as how much capital to start out with, I'd say 6 months salary. It's always a good idea to have a least 6 months worth of operating expenses as a capital reserve even while operating. It makes you less likely to be put in situations where you HAVE to work and end up taking jobs you shouldn't.

u/ShortGame64 · 3 pointsr/marriedredpill

OYS #5

Previous OYS - First OYS

Stats:

Age: 32; 6'1"; 230-221 lbs; Wife: 32, (together 6, married 3); Children: 1 - 18 months

Readings: Way of the Superior Man. NMMNG. Current: Gorilla Mindset

Overall very up and down week

Drinking

3/10

Drank 2 beers or less at 3 different social events. Pretty obvious that those events and (completely, totally imagined) peer pressure are problems for me as I haven't drank alone in 4+ weeks at this point, which is only reason this isn't a 1.

Was disappointing after a week of not drinking at all but something that gives me clarity of what I need to work on from a self-confidence and actualization perspective. (e.g. - I have trouble saying no to anyone about anything).

Next OYS:

  • Reread NMMNG as boundaries and self-actualization are major themes.
  • Journal every morning about why social events are a problem.

    Finances

    9/10

    Part of a small business group where everyone recommended the book "Profit First." Stayed up all night reading it one night and will read again. Going to implement coming up as it will ensure consistent owner profits as my business grows which will yield desired income increases. (Goal - increase income to $250k in 2020, $400k in 2021, and $600k in 2022).

    Next OYS:

  • After a couple easy months, put in a 60 hour week focusing on sales
  • New SDR has made first emails/calls
  • Partners have agreed to implement Profit First in coming months

    Debt

    No grade - holding pattern

    No movement as waiting for IRS to post recently filed 2015/2016 returns.

    Next OYS:

  • Have created a plan with IRS contingent on returns posting

    Family

    9/10

    Had an amazing week watching my daughter while my wife was gone. We had a great time playing and adventuring together. Other than taking her bowling with my side of the family on Wednesday it was all me.

    Since wife got home on Saturday she's noticed that our daughter enjoys hanging around me more and getting picked up.

    We've had sex every night but 1 since she's been back.

    Health

    4/10

    Reliance on coffee, caffeine and modafinil have continued. Totally forgot I meant to detox last weekend so put in a task to start this Friday.

    Cheated on Keto diet with wife gone. No reason other than being a total bitch. Totally not conducive to goals.

    Worked out only a couple times because I was "tired." Have been sleeping terribly because of reliance on caffeine so that has contributed.

    Also in "oh my gosh, I have so much to do I can't work out" mode when that's obviously not true and it's the most important thing regardless.

    General

    I should be able to not drink in any circumstance, but the calendar is (intentionally) free of social events while I figure out why I can't do it at those events. Again, not an excuse, but if I break my 4-week streak of not drinking alone it's DEFCON get help situation.

    Need to block out the noise and put in some hours at work. I've Time Tracked off and on over the years and will do so this week.

    Need to commit to going to sleep on time.
u/mrk971 · 3 pointsr/smallbusiness

I used to struggle about "what was right" and figuring out the right profit distribution. I stumbled upon this book called Profit First (https://www.amazon.com/Profit-First-Transform-Cash-Eating-Money-Making/dp/073521414X) a while back and decided to try it out.

The part where Alex and Bob are splitting money should be a little more complex so that you know exactly what you owe for taxes, operating expenses, income, profits, and potentially savings. It's a quick read but definitely changed how I do distribution for the better.

Note that I am not affiliated with this book whatsoever, it just really helped me out.

u/K9_MarkIII · 2 pointsr/CGPGrey

I work part-time in my university library and then I came across this new book today... coincidence?
I didn't actually look past the cover so I don't know what the content is like, so... thoughts?

edit: The book is called "Humans Need Not Apply:A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"

u/creativeintent · 2 pointsr/smallbusiness

I can relate to your story and have found myself in this situation a few times before...who hasn't?

Recently I've been reading Profit First by Mike Michalowicz and it's given me a different perspective on managing my businesses.

For me it's early days in implementing the method he preaches and to most it'll seem bonkers. It appeals to me because I respond better to strict budgets and regular tracking.

The author talks a lot about how we, as business owners, are in this cycle of: business is great -> more staff and more expenses -> have a quiet month and start to panic -> do ANYTHING to make a sale -> business is great ... and so forth.

The "Profit First" method tries to break this cycle by making us focus on our expenses and PROFIT first so that we don't find ourselves allowing expenses to creep and having to chase a sale, any sale, I'll even wash your car!

It may not be the answer to your problems but I'd certainly recommend giving it a read.

u/howardson1 · 1 pointr/Anarcho_Capitalism

This is why people hate libertarians. Why must we always reject society and revel in being outcasts. Why do we allow idiot faux racist and sexist teenagers who browse 4chan and who want to seem edgy and cool represent our movement on youtube and reddit. Even worse, why do serious libertarians always make illogical rights based NAP arguments instead of logical, utilitarian consequentialist arguments.

Libertarians need to clean their house. For one thing, while we should reject the establishment, we should not embrace all anti establishment groups. We need to be populist egalitarians. Objectivist and NAP arguments based on rights and not what would benefit the majority of people should be rejected. Anyone who says that spending is wrong because "taxation is theft" should be dismissed as intellectually lazy. Our opponents are not evil enslavers hell bent on oppressing everybody or idiots we should condescend to (I mean liberals who post on r/politics, not people at the top like Clinton, Obama, and Kissinger), but people who are misguided on how to help society. We have the same goals as them, but different means.

Some good books that provide utilitarian arguments against state intervention.

http://mises.org/books/lessons_for_the_young_economist_murphy.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/The-Poor-Clarence-Buford-Carson/dp/0870000551

http://www.amazon.com/The-Politics-Unemployment-Hans-Sennholz/dp/091088417X

http://www.amazon.com/Losing-Ground-American-Social-1950-1980/dp/1455165840

http://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375299309&sr=1-1&keywords=new+jim+crow

http://www.amazon.com/State-Against-Blacks-Walter-Williams/dp/0070703787

u/FreeMRausch · 1 pointr/russia

Thanks, ill be sure to send you a link once I finish the project this summer. The project is my chosen thesis project for graduate school and my professor is thrilled someone is finally making the case that the convict lease system and southern chain gang systems in many ways represented Soviet Gulags, from the death rates and conditions found in prison mines, prison plantations, road and forrest camps, etc to the role such penal projects played in infrastructure development. I've found numerous newspaper articles and convict interviews from the late 1800s and early 1900s and reading them, there are so many overlaps with Soviet Gulag memoirs.

I really dislike how Reagan focused so much on the Soviet Union as being an "evil empire" while he himself built up a massive prison industrial complex. Solzhenitsyn and Reagan were close friends and while they were correct to denounce the abuses that went on under communism, they have done a lot of damage in distorting American history and culture. State capitalism in America has done equally horrific things to what the Soviet Union did just like the Bush's, Clintons, and Trump have done equally bad things to what Putin has done.

Here's some sources you might find interesting. Top one is a documentary slavery by another name and then there's a bunch of books

https://vimeo.com/78437511

https://www.amazon.com/Twice-Work-Free-Labor-Political/dp/1859840868

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Prisoners-Their-World-1865-1900/dp/0813919843/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=black+prisoners+and+their+world&qid=1550435064&s=gateway&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/One-Dies-Get-Another-1866-1928/dp/1570030839/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=one+dies+get+another&qid=1550435037&s=gateway&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2AVK8K7PCQ5GM&keywords=slavery+by+another+name+book&qid=1550435091&s=gateway&sprefix=Slavery+by+anothe&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Chained-Silence-Convict-Justice-Politics-ebook/dp/B00VKMOP94/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=black+women+georgia+convict+lease&qid=1550435149&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmr0

u/Zorak5000 · 1 pointr/worldnews

I think it's more of a lame conspiracy theory than a real thing. For instance with American carmakers, they were hurting by the 1970s and it had nothing to do with their cars. They were hurting because they had to pay pensions. They were paying workers who didn't even work there anymore. Also, the American dollar was very strong compared to the Japanese yen which made it beneficial for manufacturers in Japan. But by the 1990s the Yen had risen in price to the point that was hurting companies profitability and they had to make cheaper cars.

The "source" for the explanation that you gave came from a book that's more of an activist piece than a legitimate piece of analysis.

I mean here's the source

This innovative, global feminist analysis of work and politics examines the diverse problems and related protests of women and men who labor to make ends meet in a rapidly-changing world. Within this fast-moving context, laboring people today engage in work outside of formal employment, try to obtain survival resources, mount a diverse array of often women-centered protests against firms and states, and try—on their own terms—to reinvent work and democratic political practices.

There is just too much political correct liberal nonsense there. It reads almost like a joke- caricature of your typical women's studies student . There is just so much comfy progressive global village feminist shit that it can't be taken seriously.

More:

This is an ambitious and thought-provoking study of changes in global work patterns over the last thirty years. Fast Forward lucidly analyzes the often hidden relationships, which link North and South and sustain privilege across local, regional and global differences of class, gender, colour and age. The authors see hope in the destabilization of capitalist institutions and the breakdown of oppressive gender relations

Cliffs Notes: The book was written not by anyone familiar with cars or technology, but rather an activist teaching women's studies.



u/swingbaby · 1 pointr/Entrepreneur

Man, how ya gonna post that and not share an easy link to it?

Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine https://www.amazon.com/dp/073521414X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_OiXHzbRHDWJA7

FYI, I've not read it or know anything about it, I'm just sharing a link for OP who did not. But I will check it out to see if it is of interest to me.

u/yoooooohoooooooooooo · 1 pointr/Entrepreneur

Please read this book: Profit
First


You still see an IMMEDIATE change in your business. Plus, it's an easy read.

u/otterplay · 1 pointr/pics

This is a good book of pre world war I photos, which shows child labour.

u/gu1t4r5 · 1 pointr/lectures

Yeah, and it seems like Jerry has just released a book with the same title too. Couldn't find any other reference to the title in my quick google