19 links have been added on 6 ideas about #commerce.
  1. Mining the oceans might provide the much needed minerals and resources, but it is likely to lead to devastating environmental consequences.

  2. Mining the ocean will be very challenging, especially when determining territorial claims in the deep sea.

  3. The sea and ocean floors are rich with very rare minerals that could shape the future of the world.

  4. Britain-based Barclays (BARC.L) increased its bonus pool by 46% to 1.1 billion pounds ($1.5 billion), up from 749 million pounds a year earlier, while HSBC (HSBA.L) topped up its bonus pool by $900 million in the first half. Though the UK has nothing on the corrupt types in the US. Check this out from like 7 years ago. Not sure why there isn’t a list already somewhere(?)… https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/02/forbes-list-fat-cats-have-more-money-than-all-regular-cat-owners-in-america

  5. CC

    “The remuneration committees which decide pay packages are made up almost entirely of other directors. This creates a self-serving system in which one group of directors pays another exorbitant salaries, and these then act as the ‘competitive benchmark’ for the next round. In other words, it is the power of directors as a group to set their own salaries that determines their level and growth.”

  6. Theresa May had a handy list of them all for herself. Not sure how she planned to use the list though. Not to have them investigated I guess?

  7. This would be handy if the people on the list were also listed by the company they worked for. It should include everyone who earns more in a day than the rest of us do in a year. I don’t care how clever their business idea was, another person isn’t worth 365.25 of me. Read this from the BBC.

  8. These exist online already, not long until they become a normal thing to see in the high-street, I hope. Well done Greggs for making the vegan sausage roll a popular alternative. Got to start somewhere.

  9. Tony Blair’s target of half our citizens should go to uni is to blame for some of this mess.

  10. 20 Fun Fact – The world’s first vending machine was invented in Ancient Egypt in 215 BCE. It reportedly sold holy water in the Temple in Alexandria.

  11. Interesting idea – you can actually rent a vending machine for as little as 10 bucks per week, so if you charge a dollar a week for each slot you could double your money – and make further profits if you charge a percentage of each sale, Folk could even put their car keys in it and sell that. Who knows where this idea could lead.