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fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

It Was Just Another Unremarkable Day

Rob had long been an unreliable narrator, and his latest story had been a doozy about owing back rent and borrowing thousands of dollars from a shady loan shark who had threatened him with bodily harm if he was late with his payments. There was always a germ of truth in Rob's stories, and this one involved even more disturbing details, but I was going through some of my own stuff at the time, mainly looking for a new job,
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2 weeks ago

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan review startling stories of China's new precarity

Low-paid Chinese internal migrants endure precarious, commission-based work and exploitative conditions, with couriers pressured to meet impossible delivery rates to survive.
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