Peter Gelling
Senior News Editor at INSIDER
Writer and editor. These days: Senior News Editor @BusinessInsider. Olden days: Quartz, WGBH, GlobalPost, NYT. Also: @kakilimanyc.
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3 days ago |
businessinsider.com | Peter Gelling |Kenneth Niemeyer |Henry Blodget
Some critics of basic income programs say that giving people "free" money will make them less likely to work. But a new study from Germany has found the opposite. The long-running basic income study, called Mein Grundeinkommen, or My Basic Income, found that people who received no-strings-attached payments continued to work despite receiving monthly checks.
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4 days ago |
businessinsider.com | Peter Gelling |Lauren Edmonds |Henry Blodget
Taylor Swift is the latest big name to appear in Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's contentious legal scuffle. TMZ reported on Friday that Baldoni's attorney, Bryan Freedman, subpoenaed Swift as a witness in the case related to "It Ends With Us," a 2024 romance film starring Baldoni and Lively. Although the film did well at the global box office, its success has been overshadowed by the behind-the-scenes rift between its leading stars.
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4 days ago |
businessinsider.com | Peter Gelling |Kenneth Niemeyer |Henry Blodget
This is the video game that your parents were worried about. "Schedule 1," a drug-dealing business simulator, is the biggest indie game hit of the year so far. Players build a drug empire, starting with a humble marijuana business before graduating to meth and cocaine. The game peaked in April at nearly 460,000 concurrent players on Steam, the most popular online store for downloading PC games.
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5 days ago |
businessinsider.com | Peter Gelling |Lauren Edmonds |Henry Blodget
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Banke Adebola, 31, an accountant who moved from the United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia. She moved to the capital city, Riyadh, in May 2024. It's been edited for length and clarity. My husband accepted a job offer three years ago, so I fit my life in about three suitcases and left my home in London. Now, I'm an accountant working remotely in Saudi Arabia. I'm not going to lie.
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5 days ago |
businessinsider.com | Peter Gelling |Lakshmi Varanasi |Henry Blodget
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Aleem Hossain, an associate professor of Media Arts & Culture at Occidental College. He's also a filmmaker who recently created the short film, "Do Bangladroids Dream Of Electric Tagore?" This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. I was a filmmaker before I became a professor. I started making films in high school because I was deeply interested in telling stories that just weren't being told.
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