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A very human tech doc, uncovers the real costs of the platform economy through the lives of workers from around the world for companies including Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo. From delivering food and driving ride shares to tagging images for AI, millions of people around the world are finding work task by task online. The gig economy is worth over 5 trillion USD globally, and growing. And yet the stories of the workers behind this tech revolution have gone largely neglected. Who are the people in this shadow workforce? It brings their stories into the light. Lured by the promise of flexible work hours, independence, and control over time and money, workers from around the world have found a very different reality. Work conditions are often dangerous, pay often changes without notice, and workers can effectively be fired through deactivation or a bad rating. Through an engaging global cast of characters, it reveals how the magic of technology we are being sold might not be magic at all.
Baron is reluctant to move from Jakarta to Balikpapan. In the new town, he chooses to play with his RC car, instead of making new friends. Despite his behavior, Baron is chosen to represent his school in a boy-scout camp with his schoolmate, the overtly optimistic Rusdi. Together with other friends, the fire expert Anton and the temperamental Aldi, and a strong girl they meet in a camp named Sindai, they stumble into an unexpected adventure.
Our generation has seen incredible advancements in technology. For that, we can thank one of the most successful, influential and notorious entrepreneur of the 21st century. Elon Musk, the mind behind PayPal, founder of Tesla, and SpaceX. The 2nd richest man in the world after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, with an estimated net worth of 163 billion USD. He is the ambitious genius, intellectual and eccentric tech billionaire who shook the entire world with groundbreaking inventions. After creating space rockets, electric cars, solar batteries, and robots, his astounding success puts him on top of the rank of the world’s wealthiest men.
American girls dream of finding romance in Rome, but there is none for secretaries, Anita tells her replacement at the USDA. But Maria soon meets Prince Dino de Cessi at a party at her boss’s home who invites her to fly to Venice in his private plane. Frances, who has been in Rome for 15 years as the secretary of a successful American writer who talks a lot like George Bernard Shaw and is just as elusive as Professor Henry Higgins in “My Fair Lady,” tells her at first to say “no” and then decides that together they can handle the man nicknamed the predatory prince. Coins tossed in the Trevi Fountain can indeed work magic.