20,500 American workers suffered trauma from workplace violence in 2020. There were 392 fatalities in that group. 73% of the workers who face violence were women, but 82% of those who died were men. By 2022, when so many of us had gone back to work, the number of deaths reached 525. Manufacturing is not... […]
In 2021, services accounted for about 77.6 percent of the American GDP. We can say with confidence that the United States, formerly a manufacturing powerhouse, is now primarily a service economy. Is that a good thing? Maturation or decadence? One position on this question is that a service economy is more mature than a manufacturing... […]
“As I stood in the doorway, a strange metallic voice intoned, ‘Would you like a cup of tea, master?’ and a long metal arm with some kind of teapot-shaped device on the end hurled a glittering stream of steaming water up the walls. People were dodging frantically, colliding with each other, shrieking, ‘Switch it off.... […]