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Hundreds of VACCINATED Indonesian Health Workers Test Positive For Covid-19

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<figure class="aligncenter"><img alt="Health care workers wearing PPE (personal protective equipment) prepare themselves to treat patients at a hospital for COVID-19 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on June 17, 2021. (Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/Reuters)" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://i2.wp.com/img.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2021/06/17/healthcare-workers-indonesia--e1623932272257-700x420.jpg?resize=639%2C383&ssl=1" />
<figcaption>Source: <strong><em>The Epoch Times</em></strong><br />
Despite being fully vaccinated against Covid-19, over 350 health workers in Indonesia have tested positive for the virus.</figcaption>
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<p><strong>Over 350 doctors and medical workers in Indonesia have tested positive for Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated.</strong></p>
<p>According to reports, the affected individuals had received the Sinovac Covid vaccine, which was manufactured by a Chinese pharmaceutical company.</p>
<p>The mainstream media have reported that most of these workers do not have any visible symptoms of the virus, and are therefore classed as asymptomatic, despite the possibility that many of these <a href="https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2020/12/10/inventor-of-pcr-test-pcr-is-not-a-reliable-test-for-viruses/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">testing kits may be creating false positives</a> and the fact that <a href="https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/02/14/act-like-youve-got-it/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">asymptomatic infection has been disproven.</a></p>
<p>Everyone who tested positive has been forced to self-isolate at home. Those with symptoms have reported high fevers and declining oxygen saturation levels.</p>
<p>According to reports, this “outbreak” is taking place in Kudus, which has around 5,000 health workers.</p>
<p>When the vaccination rollout first began in Indonesia in January, health workers were deemed a priority group and were among the first to get vaccinated.</p>
<p>Despite this, many of these medical workers are now catching the virus, showing that these vaccines are ineffective and harmful.</p>
<p>Dicky Budiman, an epidemiologist at Australia’s Griffith University, tried to excuse the “breakthrough cases”, as he said: “The data shows they have the Delta variant (in Kudus) so it is no surprise that the breakthrough infection is higher than before, because, as we know, the majority of health care workers in Indonesia got Sinovac, and we still don’t know yet how effective it is in the real world against the Delta variant.”</p>
<p>It seems the best way to avoid criticism about the efficacy of the experimental vaccine is to blame it on the new “variants”, which seem to be appearing out of thin air at this rate.</p>
<p>Despite attempts by the mainstream media, spokesperson from Sinovac and Indonesia’s ministry of health were conveniently not available for comment regarding the efficacy of the vaccine against the virus.</p>
<p><strong>At one point will people stop to question why so many fully vaccinated people are catching the virus? <a href="https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/06/11/shocking-u-k-government-release-19th-report-on-adverse-reactions-to-the-covid-vaccines/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">These experimental jabs have caused many severe adverse reactions</a>, and the figure will only continue to rise as more people line up to receive their vaccine.</strong></p>
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Social Media Networks Now Targeting Young People – Promoting Covid-19 Vaccine

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Platforms such as Snapchat and TikTok are now targeting younger people in the UK government’s latest campaign to tackle vaccine hesitancy.</figcaption>
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<p><strong>Social media networks are now targeting young people, encouraging them to go and get the Covid-19 vaccine.</strong></p>
<p>This follows the announcement on Wednesday 16<sup>th</sup> June that Brits aged 21 will now be able to get their jab.</p>
<p>Social media networks such as Snapchat and TikTok have joined the online drive in pushing younger people to get fully vaccinated through filters and other incentives.</p>
<p>Snapchat users will be able to use new NHS stickers and a filter that says “I’ve had my vaccine.”</p>
<p>Users will also be shown links to the NHS website, World Health Organisation (WHO), and other “reliable sources” of information, including a Q&A which will be held on the prime minister’s Snapchat account.</p>
<p>TikTok is also adding vaccine stickers and filters to their platform whilst also working with scientists to share clips about the jab.</p>
<p>The government’s latest campaign hopes to tackle “vaccine hesitancy” amongst younger people aged 18-21, which they state is caused by “misinformation” about the jab which is shared online.</p>
<p>Dr Karan Rangarajan, an NHS surgeon, and influencer who has 3.9 million followers on TikTok, told <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-snapchat-and-tiktok-encourage-young-people-to-get-vaccine-as-1m-jabs-booked-in-two-day-period-12337239" target="_blank">Sky News</a>: “Misinformation affects all groups equally and there is a large user base that is in their late teens or early 20s.</p>
<p>“They are also in the UK the last cohort to be eligible for the vaccine so it’s a really important group to target.”</p>
<p>Despite pushing for younger people to get the jab, <a href="https://uk.news.yahoo.com/covid-vaccine-hesitancy-higher-young-people-ons-data-120655699.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">one in eight adults aged 16-29 reported that they would not get the Covid-19 vaccine.</a></p>
<p>Other social media platforms which have been involved in the vaccine rollout are Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit.</p>
<p>It seems like censorship is one of the key tools that big tech platforms use to target “misinformation” and encourage users to roll up their sleeves and submit to the jab.</p>
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<p><strong>For a vaccine so safe, why did groups like this exist? Why are big tech platforms going to such extreme lengths to not only censor vaccine victims and to promote the jab?</strong></p>
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The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision on paying NCAA student-athletes, explained

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<p>The Supreme Court handed down a heavily caveated victory for elite college athletes on Monday. The immediate impact of the Court’s unanimous decision in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-512_gfbh.pdf"><em>National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston</em></a> is that many elite student-athletes will receive additional education-related compensations, such as additional scholarship money. But the case could have broader implications and could eventually lead to these athletes being paid salaries.</p>
<p>The Court’s decision is the final chapter in a <a href="https://www.vox.com/22348385/supreme-court-ncaa-alston-football-basketball-march-madness-college-sports-antitrust">lengthy legal fight that began in 2014</a>. Several athletes from the highest levels of college sports — men’s and women’s Division I basketball, plus football players in the NCAA’s elite “Football Bowl Subdivision” — filed this suit seven years ago. They challenged rules enforced by the NCAA and various other governing bodies within college sports, which place fairly strict limits on athlete compensation.</p>
<p>To be clear, these athletes weren’t uncompensated. Many elite athletes received scholarships that covered their tuition, room, and board. Some players could also receive <a href="https://casetext.com/case/alston-v-natl-collegiate-athletic-assn-in-re-natl-collegiate-athletic-assn-athletic-grant-in-aid-cap-antitrust-litig-1">small cash stipends</a> to cover living expenses, plus perks such as meals and medical care for sports-related injuries. But they did not receive anywhere near the sort of stratospheric salaries that are available to the best professional athletes — or any salary at all.</p>
<p>Elite student-athletes receive fairly meager compensation, moreover, despite the fact that they are enormous profit centers for their universities — and an array of merchants and broadcasters that profit off of college sports. In the 2015-16 academic year, for example, Division I basketball and Division I-A football <a href="https://casetext.com/case/alston-v-natl-collegiate-athletic-assn-in-re-natl-collegiate-athletic-assn-athletic-grant-in-aid-cap-antitrust-litig-1">generated $4.3 billion in revenue</a>. The NCAA’s current broadcast agreement for its annual March Madness basketball tournament is <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-512_gfbh.pdf">worth over a billion dollars annually</a>.</p>
<p>Over the course of the <em>Alston</em> litigation, two lower courts held that some — but not all — of the NCAA’s restrictions on athlete compensation must be struck down. As Justice Neil Gorsuch summarizes these lower court decisions in his opinion for the Supreme Court, the lower courts lifted “rules that limit scholarships for graduate or vocational school, payments for academic tutoring, or paid posteligibility internships,” while leaving in place “rules aimed at ensuring ‘student athletes do not receive unlimited payments unrelated to education.’”</p>
<p>Gorsuch’s opinion leaves in place these lower court decisions.</p>
<p>In essence, that means that athletes may receive additional education-related payments, such as scholarships for graduate school, but Supreme Court’s decision still allows the NCAA to prevent student-athletes from being paid like professional athletes. That said, one member of the Court argues in a separate opinion that student-athletes should receive much broader relief if they file a new lawsuit challenging all of the NCAA’s limits on compensation.</p>
<p>The NCAA hoped to avoid this outcome by arguing that it should effectively be exempted from antitrust rules that prevent businesses from colluding with their competitors to set workers’ compensation. The upshot of Gorsuch’s opinion is that, at least in a case like this one, the NCAA has to follow the same antitrust rules as everyone else — though that may not be true in every future case alleging that a sports league violates federal antitrust law.</p>
<p>The NCAA’s rules limiting player compensation are, in the parlance of antitrust law, a “<a href="https://www.vox.com/22348385/supreme-court-ncaa-alston-football-basketball-march-madness-college-sports-antitrust">horizontal agreement</a>.” That is, they are an agreement to set prices among multiple businesses that compete at the same level within the college sports industry.</p>
<p>As the Supreme Court explained in <a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/468/85.html"><em>NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma</em></a> (1984), “horizontal price fixing and output limitation are ordinarily condemned as a matter of law under an ‘illegal per se’ approach because the probability that these practices are anticompetitive is so high.” When competitors collude with each other to depress wages, the courts typically come down upon those employers with a hammer.</p>
<p>But the <em>Board of Regents</em> decision also suggests that federal antitrust law does not always apply with its full force towards sports leagues.</p>
<p>Such leagues are known as “joint ventures” by antitrust lawyers. The very nature of team sports is that multiple teams must agree to compete together under a common set of rules. They must collude on when to schedule games and where those games will take place. For these reasons, the courts typically allow sports teams to engage in some degree of collusion with each other — and to form umbrella organizations such as the NCAA, which set rules for many teams — because competitive sports cannot exist without some amount of mutual agreement.</p>
<p>The upshot of the Court’s decision in <em>Alston</em>, however, is that the special solicitude that antitrust law typically gives to sports leagues does not extend to the NCAA’s attempts to limit player compensation.</p>
<p>The fact that some degree of collusion among competitors is “necessary to create or maintain a league sport” Gorsuch writes, “does not mean all ‘aspects of elaborate interleague cooperation are.’” Though league sports cannot exist without common rules and a common schedule, “nobody questions that Division I basketball and FBS football can proceed (and have proceeded) without the education-related compensation restrictions the district court enjoined; the games go on.”</p>
<p>Thus, the NCAA cannot dodge compliance with federal antitrust law.</p>
<p>Additionally, the NCAA argued that paying their athletes more would fundamentally alter the product that the NCAA provides to consumers. That product, according to the NCAA, is “amateur” athletics offered by poorly compensated student-athletes, not by professionals paid a market salary. But the Court treated this argument fairly dismissively.</p>
<p>Among other things, Gorsuch noted in his opinion, “the NCAA’s conception of amateurism has changed steadily over the years.” A former commissioner of college sports’ Southeastern Conference even testified that he’s “never been clear on ... what is really meant by amateurism.”</p>
<p>So it’s hard for the NCAA to claim that it offers some unique product, grounded in “amateurism,” when it can’t even stick to a single definition of what it means to be an “amateur” athlete.</p>
<p>The lower courts struck down the NCAA’s limits on education-related compensation for athletes, but left in place other limits on compensation — and the Supreme Court upheld this baby-splitting result in <em>Alston</em>.</p>
<p>But, as Gorsuch notes in his opinion, a major reason why the Supreme Court did not go further is that the plaintiffs did not ask them to do so. As he writes, “the student athletes [did] not renew their across-the-board challenge to the NCAA’s compensation restrictions” when their case reached the Supreme Court.</p>
<p>Although the full Court did not weigh in on whether elite student-athletes should be entitled to more compensation than the <em>Alston</em> opinion requires, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a separate concurring opinion where he argues that “the NCAA’s remaining compensation rules also raise serious questions under the antitrust laws.”</p>
<p>As Kavanaugh writes, “the NCAA’s business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America.” Among other things, the NCAA “controls the market for college athletes;” it “concedes that its compensation rules set the price of student athlete labor at a below-market rate”; and it “recognizes that student athletes currently have no meaningful ability to negotiate with the NCAA over the compensation rules.”</p>
<p>That’s exactly the sort of iron grip over pricing that antitrust laws are supposed to prevent.</p>
<p>It remains to be seen whether Kavanaugh’s opinion will someday become the law, but it will likely signal to student-athletes that they should consider filing a new lawsuit challenging the NCAA’s remaining restrictions on compensation.</p>
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Democrats’ voting rights bill is a big test for Biden’s global democracy agenda

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<p>Getting Democrats’ <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/3/3/22309123/house-democrats-pass-voting-rights-bill-hr1">voting rights bill</a> passed isn’t just important to the Biden administration’s democracy agenda at home. It would also underscore a major pillar of the president’s foreign policy: strengthening the appeal of democracy worldwide by proving democratic governments can deliver for their people.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/3/3/22309123/house-democrats-pass-voting-rights-bill-hr1">800-page HR 1 legislation</a>, known as the For the People Act, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/06/21/voting-rights-bill-senate-poised-vote-republicans-opposed/7708277002/">passed in the House on a near party-line vote in March</a>. Among many other measures, the bill aims to make it easier for Americans to vote in elections, bring more transparency to how candidates are financed, and bolster government ethics provisions.</p>
<p>Democrats say these changes are necessary to counter <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/1002101600/here-are-the-texas-gops-reasons-for-voter-restrictions-and-critics-replies">restrictive voting laws</a> being pushed by Republicans in many states; Republicans see the bill as a <a href="https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/report/the-facts-about-hr-1-the-the-people-act-2019">sweeping set of reforms</a> designed to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop-warns-hr-absolutely-devastating-republicans/story?id=76555647">help Democrats win in future elections</a>.</p>
<p>It’s unclear if HR 1 will pass in its current form, or at all. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will bring it up for a procedural vote on Tuesday, where lawmakers will decide if the bill should come up for an approve-or-deny vote in the future. Most analysts say the <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/06/21/this-week-in-washington-biden-takes-on-rising-crime-493306">bill won’t clear that hurdle</a>, potentially killing HR 1 for good in this Congress.</p>
<p>That would be a serious blow to Biden’s domestic agenda. After the House passed the bill in March, the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/04/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-house-of-representatives-passage-of-h-r-1/">president said</a> its measures were “urgently needed to protect that right [to vote], to safeguard the integrity of our elections, and to repair and strengthen our democracy.” Biden even made <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/politics/kamala-harris-voting-rights-laws.html">Vice President Kamala Harris</a> his point person for voting rights.</p>
<p>But on a grander scale, it could potentially harm the core message of Biden’s foreign policy. “Biden’s global democracy agenda depends on US democracy continuing to strengthen at home,” said Heather Hurlburt, a director at the New America think tank in Washington, DC, and so far the record is “terrible on voting rights and election integrity. So turning those around is important.”</p>
<p>Simply put, Biden’s democratic vision for the world is intricately linked with HR 1’s future in Congress — and at the moment, that vision is in serious jeopardy.</p>
<p>When speaking about his foreign policy views, Biden often says he sees the world locked in a struggle between democracies and autocracies. He wants to ensure democracies win.</p>
<p>“We have to prove democracy still works. That our government still works — and can deliver for the people,” he said during his <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/4/28/22408735/joe-biden-congress-speech-democracy-autocracy">first address to Congress back in April</a>. Those who believe American democracy won’t prevail “are wrong, and we have to prove them wrong.”</p>
<p>That’s why many see the passage of HR 1 as vital to Biden’s foreign policy; if it fails in Congress, it’ll be harder for Biden to push for a global democratic movement. After all, it’s awkward for any leader to tell others to push for democratic reforms while democracy dwindles in the country they lead.</p>
<p>HR 1 is “probably the most important piece of legislation in terms of making sure we still have a democracy,” a senior Senate Democratic staffer told me, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. “It’s trying to unrig the game.”</p>
<p>But there’s also a risk to Biden’s democracy vision if HR 1 actually makes it through Congress, Hurlburt told me. Republican-led states could slow-walk implementing many of the provisions in the bill. Such defiance might signal to other nations that the president can’t safeguard democracy in his own country, she said, which would be “terrible for all of US foreign policy, including the democracy agenda.”</p>
<p>Some analysts are less convinced that the bill will significantly affect voting rights in the US or American foreign policy writ large, though.</p>
<p>Domestically, critics say the measures were <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/06/21/this-week-in-washington-biden-takes-on-rising-crime-493306">drafted by staffers, not true democratic reform experts</a>, well before the election issues of 2020 became apparent to all. As for the international part, some analysts believe HR 1 won’t be a turning point for America’s global relations.</p>
<p>“Foreign partners will not change their alignments based on the passage of this legislation,” said Justin Logan, a senior fellow at the CATO Institute in Washington. “Just as the contestation in the United States during the civil rights era did not tip the balance of power internationally, neither would restrictions on voting criteria in the states ... affect the concrete realities of international politics.”</p>
<p>Perhaps the bigger question is whether Biden is wise to have put so much stock in the global democracy agenda. While the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/5/3/22406391/hr1-poll-for-the-people-act">passage of HR 1 is popular</a>, a March poll from the Pew Research Center showed only <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/03/02/americans-put-low-priority-on-promoting-democracy-abroad-2/">20 percent</a> of US adults and 24 percent of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents said promoting democracy in other nations should be a top priority as a long-range foreign policy goal.</p>
<p>Getting HR 1 through Congress might be a worthy idea, but Biden’s emphasis on it could be a problem for his global designs. Should it fail, he’ll have a steeper climb to prove democracies right.</p>
<p><em>Li Zhou and Ella Nilsen contributed to this report.</em></p>
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The soothing, slightly sinister world of productivity hacks

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<p>Before starting this job, I blew $50 at CVS on neon gel pens, pleather-bound notebooks, and felt-tipped highlighters because a TikToker told me they’d make me enjoy working more. In the past month, I haven’t used a single one.</p>
<p>The TikToker in question, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@studynotesideas">@Studynotesideas</a>, is an 18-year-old with nearly 650,000 followers who produces content for the overstressed and underprepared student. Each video is shot at her desk, which features a bubblegum-pink keyboard, a collection of rainbow gel pens, and a peek at her greeting card-esque handwriting. She tells us which pens you need for seamless notes (no smudging), study methods that guarantee results (active recall), and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@studynotesideas/video/6970693589529611525">gadgets that prevent procrastination</a>. Her schtick is gently intimidating and reminds me of when you’d ask the overachiever in your history class for the notes you missed.</p>
<p>I’ve watched nearly a hundred of her videos over the past four months, and after each binge, I’m convinced that with the right set of stationery and desk tchotchkes, I too can become more organized.</p>
<p>Such is the world of #ProductivityTok, or the suite of young adult content creators whose job is to teach America’s next generation of workers how to live to work. The genre harks back to what Cybernaut’s Fadeke Adegbuyi dubbed the “<a href="https://every.to/cybernaut/caught-in-the-study-web">study web</a>,” a network of Tumblr, YouTube, Discord, and Instagram influencers who encourage students to study with aestheticized livestreams and high school hacks. What <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9qvx/why-its-satisfying-to-watch-other-people-organize-bullet-journal-notion-setup-youtube-tiktok">began around 2013</a> with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmstU61NUr4">floral bullet-journal spreads</a> and biology notes titled with calligraphy is now a cottage industry with the frenzied energy of a speed run through Wes Anderson’s <em>The</em> <em>Grand Budapest Hotel</em>. Everything is beautiful and pulsating with stress, and pastel notebooks and frothy matcha lattes bracket 15-hour days of studying, work, and “self-improvement.”</p>
<p>Now that much of Generation Z is graduating college and plowing into their first adult jobs, the landscape of productivity porn has become more amorphous. The corporate workflow software Notion has gone viral on TikTok, its hashtag amassing more than <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/notion">49 million views</a> as teenage creators use it to plan everything from their <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@kindaking/video/6915500383452269830">class schedules to the movies they watch</a>, treating free time as something to be checked off a list. There’s <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/lawtok">#LawTok</a>, where law students film themselves as they make oversized outlines and feel guilty about taking a break for a morning walk. There are <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/miss-excel-microsoft-tiktok-instagram-influencer-six-figures-2021-4">Excel celebrities</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/26/tiktok-career-advice-job-interview-tips/">resume czars</a> and no shortage of morning routines that start at 6 am.</p>
<p>Here, the personal and professional blend. The goal, it appears, is to strive constantly, so even self-care is a means to an end. “One never exits a kind of work rapture, in which the chief purpose of exercising or attending a concert is to get inspiration that leads back to the desk,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/business/against-hustle-culture-rise-and-grind-tgim.html">wrote New York Times tech journalist Erin Griffith</a> on this blind devotion to the grind in 2019. In other words, relaxation doesn’t exist in the “study web” unless it serves a clear purpose. You go on vacation because it rejuvenates you ahead of a busy season. You work out because the endorphins make meetings more tolerable. You read, but never for pleasure.</p>
<p>“Why would you read 300 pages when you can just figure [something] out in five minutes?” Neil Patel, a digital marketer and author of a New York Times bestseller on productivity, said in <a href="https://twitter.com/neilpatel/status/1402252726956789766">a now-deleted Twitter video</a> where he encouraged his followers to swap books for blog posts and Instagram infographics because “you can consume information faster.”</p>
<p>There’s admittedly something soothing about watching people with boundless energy get their lives together, particularly after a year of uncontrollable disarray. But beneath each optimization tip is a scary idea: Raised on the myth of meritocracy, many members of Gen Z who watch these videos have turned to an unsustainable diet of rising and grinding to insulate themselves from the uncertainty of a post-pandemic economy.</p>
<p>“The American ethos ties together self-worth, value, and productivity. There’s an element of that in these videos because they remind us that we can always do better,” Lee Humphreys, a communications professor at Cornell whose research specializes in how we catalog our lives across social media, told me.</p>
<p>The self-made success story is inscribed in the concept of Americana. The social studies lessons I remember most are the ones about America’s first nouveau riche: the 49ers who gambled it all on the gold rush, not to mention J.D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and the rest of the industrialists who epitomize the “titans of industry or robber barons” debate. Historians allege that <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldrush-california/">$207 million worth of gold</a> was pulled from the ground in California between 1849 and 1852, transforming the lives of miners who risked their savings and home mortgages. Meanwhile, Gilded Age entrepreneurship felt romantic: These were stories of men who made industries out of ideas, even if that meant <a href="https://www.history.com/news/andrew-carnegie-unions-homestead-strike">breaking strikes at steel mills</a> or <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/misunderstood-robber-baron-cornelius-vanderbilt/">cutting wages for railroad workers</a> amid the Depression to maintain a bottom line.</p>
<p>Adulating DIY billionaires has never been about how they did it themselves but about the fact that they did. And isn’t that something?</p>
<p>Even now, the fantasy of independent wealth is an enticing one. In a 2019 Morning Consult survey, 54 percent of Gen Z-ers and millennials <a href="https://morningconsult.com/influencer-report-engaging-gen-z-and-millennials/">said they’d become an influencer</a> if given the chance. If you ignore the <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurenstrapagiel/tiktok-algorithim-racial-bias">implications of whom the algorithm makes famous</a>, the path is eerily similar to prospecting for gold — on its face, the barriers to entry include a camera, a ring light, and a steady stream of palatable content.</p>
<p>In other words, whether the game is coming up with a 20-second dance trend or making Excel lists at an entry-level product management job, Gen Z hustle worshippers do so because of how it fits into the tapestry of American culture. Work hard, the thinking goes, and you will be rewarded, even if circumstances point to a future where we’ll likely be less well off than our parents. Subscribe to the hustle, and the systemic issues of our time — poverty, inequities in education, housing crises — become personalized.</p>
<p>According to the Pew Research Center, Gen Z is on track to be the <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/05/14/on-the-cusp-of-adulthood-and-facing-an-uncertain-future-what-we-know-about-gen-z-so-far-2/">most educated generation ever</a>, yet US workers younger than 25 experienced <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=66960X1516588&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgusto.com%2Fcompany-news%2Fsmb-employee-covid-19-impact&referrer=vox.com&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Fthe-goods%2F22538703%2Ftiktok-productivity-hacks-gen-z" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank" has-subtag="true" data-cdata='{"rewritten_url":"https://go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516588\u0026xs=1\u0026url=https://gusto.com/company-news/smb-employee-covid-19-impact\u0026referrer=vox.com\u0026sref=https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22538703/tiktok-productivity-hacks-gen-z\u0026xcust=___vx__p_22302744__m_m-placeholder__s_s-placeholder__t_w__c_c-placeholder__r_r-placeholder__d_d-placeholder","subtag_max_length":50,"subtag_delim_length":3,"subtag_key":"xcust","subtag_data":{"id":"66960X1516588","xs":"1","url":"https://gusto.com/company-news/smb-employee-covid-19-impact","referrer":"vox.com","sref":"https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22538703/tiktok-productivity-hacks-gen-z","xcust":"___vx__p_22302744__m_m-placeholder__s_s-placeholder__t_w__c_c-placeholder__r_r-placeholder__d_d-placeholder"},"encode_subtag":false}'>a 93 percent higher rate of layoffs</a> during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic than those older than 35. Across all 2.5 billion of us worldwide, our cumulative income — currently estimated to be around $7 trillion — is <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/20/gen-z-incomes-predicted-to-beat-millennials-in-10-years.html">expected to reach $33 trillion</a> by 2030. But we’re also set to inherit a recession-laden job market marked by stagnating wages and plenty of job-hopping, making it difficult to accomplish our parents’ markers of success: homeownership, retirement savings, paid-off student loans.</p>
<p>So what does a generation raised to equate hard work with guaranteed prosperity do when it’s met with uncertainty? It works harder, and it makes videos reminding others how they can too.</p>
<p>“These videos are often a way of managing insecurity, right? Gen Z will never have the job security their parents or grandparents had,” said Humphreys. “The sort of self-scrutiny that comes along with these videos can help mitigate both economic and professional insecurities.”</p>
<p>#ProductivityTok thrives on the concept of <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58b37319ff7c508925e2d112/t/5a1c08b0e4966b134222f516/1511786673672/Duffy-IJCS.pdf">aspirational labor</a>, where the right combination of gadgets, manifestation, and rise-and-grind chutzpah can catapult anyone into the career of their dreams. But aspirational work and consumption have always been central to lifestyle content. While the idea of self-help can be traced back to 1859, when <a href="https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/self-help-by-samuel-smiles">Samuel Smile’s book on the topic</a> was published within months of Charles Darwin’s <em>On the Origin of Species,</em> self-help as we know it coalesced in the 1950s, with books on everything from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC0SXM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1" has-subtag="true" data-cdata='{"rewritten_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC0SXM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8\u0026btkr=1\u0026ascsubtag=[]vx[p]22302744[m]m-placeholder[s]s-placeholder[t]w[c]c-placeholder[r]r-placeholder[d]d-placeholder","subtag_max_length":99,"subtag_delim_length":2,"subtag_key":"ascsubtag","subtag_data":{"_encoding":"UTF8","btkr":"1","ascsubtag":"[]vx[p]22302744[m]m-placeholder[s]s-placeholder[t]w[c]c-placeholder[r]r-placeholder[d]d-placeholder"},"encode_subtag":false}'>positive thinking</a> to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pray-your-weight-Charlie-Shedd/dp/B0007E3C0E" has-subtag="true" data-cdata='{"rewritten_url":"https://www.amazon.com/Pray-your-weight-Charlie-Shedd/dp/B0007E3C0E?ascsubtag=[]vx[p]22302744[m]m-placeholder[s]s-placeholder[t]w[c]c-placeholder[r]r-placeholder[d]d-placeholder","subtag_max_length":99,"subtag_delim_length":2,"subtag_key":"ascsubtag","subtag_data":{"ascsubtag":"[]vx[p]22302744[m]m-placeholder[s]s-placeholder[t]w[c]c-placeholder[r]r-placeholder[d]d-placeholder"},"encode_subtag":false}'>how to pray yourself skinny</a>.</p>
<p>Then came Tony Robbins, arguably self-help’s first influencer, who turned the law of attraction into a cash cow of books, tapes, and seminars promising the keys to self-actualization. His straight-to-the-camera ethos and unrelenting charm blurred the line between teaching and selling, not unlike most of what the “study web” ends up looking like.</p>
<p>Flash forward one year and a quarantine later, and self-help books and motivational TED Talks have given way to a genre of TikToks on how to “be that girl” — with “that’’ a euphemism for productive, high-achieving, and effortlessly organized — where the keys to success are as simple as waking up early, journaling, and staying hydrated. <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@.becomethat.girl">TikTok account @.becomethat.girl</a> has more than 116,000 followers and deals in simple lists. “Do 10 minutes of yoga. Try eating no added sugar foods. Write a to-do list. Do your skin care. Drink 8 cups of water,” <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@.becomethat.girl/video/6965971362292714753?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1">one video</a> advises.</p>
<p>So the goal, it seems, isn’t necessarily to be productive, but rather to <em>look</em> productive.</p>
<p>“I have not seen empirical evidence to suggest that consuming this media necessarily leads to better, healthier, more productive behaviors,” said Humphrey, who points to the concept of narcotizing dysfunction, which maintains that viewing self-improvement content merely tricks viewers into believing they’re actively learning how to cook or study or manage their time. In actuality, they’re being lulled into a state of inaction.</p>
<p>Sure, the right mixture of these tips can make us more organized and focused, but the outcome isn’t always a better work-life balance or a more structured morning routine. It’s the gamification of labor, where the pressure for output is exhilarating because it’s tangible and trackable.</p>
<p>The productivity software sector — which encompasses workflow-management apps such as Slack, Asana, Trello, Todoist, and the ever-popular Notion — is expected to be <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/productivity-management-software-market-size-worth-102-98-billion-by-2027-grand-view-research-inc-301120852.html">worth nearly $103 billion by 2027</a> as the line between work and everything else continues to blur. Long before the pandemic drove swaths of the workforce into home offices (or onto couches), <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/07/families-slack-asana/593584/">young families were turning to these apps</a> to manage their schedules.</p>
<p>Even analog planners are evolving into trackers optimized for the hustle. Planners on the market <a href="https://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-planners-according-to-productivity-experts.html">now include habit and goal trackers</a> that analyze how long we sleep and how often we exercise, look at our phones, or read. There’s something both dystopian and satisfying about coloring a square for each day I read 10 pages of a book or do my journaling in the morning, but are any of these things truly relaxing or intentional if they feel required?</p>
<p>In truth, I cheat at checklists. Most days I pack them with things I already accomplished — unloading the dishwasher, clearing my inbox, calling my mother — so it looks like I crossed off enough activities to justify an afternoon of reality television and takeout. Relaxation and accountability are antonyms, and I’d argue that if you have to check off the fact that you did, in fact, read for pleasure or go on a walk, you probably weren’t savoring it. You were probably thinking about what comes next.</p>
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This progressive police reform bill is pretty popular

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<p>As lawmakers try to find a bipartisan compromise on police reform, new polling data reveals that a more progressive approach has fairly strong support as well.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2021/6/dfp-vox-police-reform-legislation-toplines.pdf">Per a Vox/Data for Progress survey</a>, the <a href="https://www.vox.com/22263084/breathe-act-revolutionize-policing-pressley-tlaib">Breathe Act</a>, legislation that would implement a more sweeping overhaul of policing that has been championed by activists including the Movement for Black Lives, also has 51 percent likely voter backing. The much less ambitious George Floyd Justice in Policing Act has strong support as well, with an even higher 66 percent in backing.</p>
<p>And yet, neither is likely to make it into law. Both bills are more expansive than what lawmakers are currently negotiating, and face roadblocks when it comes to the Senate. While Democrats made the Justice in Policing Act their starting point in negotiations, it doesn’t have the votes to get through the upper chamber and neither would the Breathe Act.</p>
<p>Because of the Senate’s current 50-50 split, the existence of the legislative filibuster, and Democrats’ own internal divisions on police reform, they will have to compromise with Republicans to advance a bill, suggesting that whatever could pass will be more limited than the Justice in Policing Act.</p>
<p>The differences between the various policing measures are significant.</p>
<p>The Breathe Act, the more progressive option, calls for the closure of federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and divesting federal funds allocated to law enforcement. It also includes an array of other reforms including offering federal grants to local governments to invest in public safety alternatives, and pushing for an end to mandatory minimums.</p>
<p>The Justice in Policing Act would center on curbing qualified immunity protections for police officers, making it easier to prosecute police officers at the federal level and establishing a national registry of police misconduct. Republicans’ Justice Act, meanwhile, would call on individual law enforcement agencies to keep records about misconduct, incentivize state and local agencies to ban chokeholds, and gather data about the use of no-knock warrants.</p>
<p>Any bipartisan agreement is expected to include a more limited version of qualified immunity reforms, and potential federal bans on chokeholds and no-knock warrants in drug cases.</p>
<p>Backing for different components of the Breathe Act varies. According to the poll, 56 percent of people favor reducing incarcerations, 43 percent support closures of agencies including ICE and DEA, 51 percent support ending mandatory minimum sentences, and 52 percent back additional federal money that incentivizes local governments to invest in public safety alternatives.</p>
<p>The poll indicates that activists’ favored approach has stable public backing, though most people still prefer an option that preserves the existing policing system (58 percent), compared to one that significantly shifts funding away from policing to other forms of public safety (30 percent).</p>
<p>Overall, though, the survey shows that people would be open to a police and criminal justice reform option that’s broader than one the Senate might take up — if one comes to a vote at all.</p>
<p>Thus far, the prospects for a bipartisan agreement have been uncertain. While lawmakers have repeatedly said they’ve been making progress, they missed a May 25 deadline they set for a compromise to be reached and have yet to unveil a potential framework.</p>
<p>The poll was fielded between June 9 to 11 and includes 1,227 voters. It has a sampling margin of error of 3 percentage points.</p>
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vox This progressive police reform bill is pretty popular

As lawmakers try to find a bipartisan compromise on police reform, new polling data reveals that a more progressive approach has fairly str...