According to the most optimistic estimates, the total audience of popular science publications in Russia is only about 6 million people. That’s roughly 4% of the population. And this market in Russia today, it seems, is experiencing a crisis.

#Analytics #UnitedKingdom #west #acrisis #Thescience #society #Russia #market #USA #censorship

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Former choreographers, accountants, and fitness trainers, after express psychology courses, record polished videos and take on children and adults as clients. Their clients either become disillusioned with psychology or end up with psychiatrists with worsened problems. The State Duma has been unable to pass a law regulating private psychologists for 12 years.

#business #TheStateDuma #law #health #incompetence #psychology #Russia #market #tendencies #services #privatepsychologists

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Somewhere in a beautiful society of the future, which we will never see, the profession of sales manager will be classified as highly toxic, psychologically traumatic, and requiring rehabilitation after dismissal. Rehabs will open for former salespeople, and corporations will be required to pay them compensation for years spent in open-space offices where they were told: «If you didn't meet your KPI, you don't deserve love, lunch, health, or a roof over your head.»

#lifeinRussia #Camus #career #associations #acrisis #violence #neoliberalism #inequality #postindustrialsociety #market #Sisyphus #LaborandCapital #essay

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Most participants in the Klondike Gold Rush died in poverty. But for some, this era still helped them get rich. For example, entrepreneur Levi Strauss, who created the legendary jeans. Their durable fabric and rivets in the corners of the pockets were made specifically to meet the needs of the prospectors. The winners were also saloon owners, equipment sellers, and food suppliers—in short, everyone who supported the work of the gold miners. So, the Russian consumer market in the last three years resembles such a Klondike. Only instead of searching for yellow metal, people are engaged in trading on marketplaces, which seem to be a new golden bottom of the Russian economy.

#Wildberries #Analytics #business #competition #marketplaces #inequality #parallelimport #Russia #market #sanctions

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