Hello pal, Here is your friendly reminder that if you filed for a tax extension earlier this year, the deadline to file your taxes is October 15, and it’s fast approaching. If you’re still working on getting everything in order, I got a gift to keep you going. Here are a series of playlists. They’re tunes to do your taxes to; to keep you motivated, to keep you company, and to keep you in the minding-my-money mood. I got inspired to put these playlists together when I realized that there are so many songs across so many genres about money, consumption, capitalism, hustling, being broke, or being wealthy. Death & Taxes Vol. 5: It’s Expensive to Be Cheap Death & Taxes Vol. 4: No One Wants to Work Death & Taxes Vol. 3: Status Anxiety Death & Taxes Vol. 2: Inequality in the Modern Economy Death & Taxes. Vol. 1: The Absurdity of Certainty I hope you find something new. I hope you find something you like. I hope you find the common thread that we’re all a little weird up about money. Your favorite finance friend,
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1. 🤓 Should I Invest My Emergency Fund?
(HYG Original) 🤓
2. 🔒 The Only Thing You Can’t Subscribe to Now Is Stability (The Atlantic) 3. 👔 Work Is A False Idol
(New York Times) 4. 🤡 Girlboss ended not with a bang, but a meme (Vox) “Pinning hopes on CEOs to dismantle structural barriers is how we got into this mess in the first place.”
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A bookkeeping thing: (HYG Original) Why You Should Stop Doing Your Own Taxes (Especially if You’re Self-Employed)
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6. 🛵 Delivery Apps like Grubhub and DoorDash charge restaurants huge commission fees. Are delivery co-ops the solution?
(The Counter) When I think about how tech companies have transformed our relationship with restaurants and how many seem to be at the mercy of these apps, it makes me wonder what Anthony Bourdain would have to say about all of this.
7. 🤖 Amazon’s Robot Will Sure Look Cute While It’s Terrorizing Us
(Gizmodo) “My fear is not merely that Amazon has invented a new way to invade our privacy and get richer in the process, although I’m afraid of and offended by that, too. It’s that caring about invasive technology makes me the weirdo. That far more people fall on the opposite side of the everlasting conflict between security and privacy than I do. That this doe-eyed little robot is the embodiment of, and a new catalyst for, everything that divides us. That people—most people—want this.”
8. 🤷♀️ When I was an influencer
(Maybe Baby) Haley Nahman on greed. “Greed has received a dazzling PR treatment in recent years. The Kardashians aren’t greedy, they’re enterprising. Silicon Valley isn’t selling our data, it’s improving our lives. Serial entrepreneurs aren’t trying to strike it rich, they’re dreamers. They’re rising and grinding, they’re 30-under-30. This kind of vocabulary enjoys a sheen of social progress while blatantly side-stepping the economic implications of such a value system, like say, 1% of the US population holding almost a third of its wealth. If the idea of hustling and securing the bag were once proliferated by the poor to get by (these terms specifically gaining popularity in Black culture), it should come as no surprise that the bourgeoisie embraced it to launder their greed through a virtuous framework. It begs the question: If the poor hustle to survive, to what end do the uber-rich do it?”
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