{"id":20285,"date":"2025-09-30T15:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/the-divide-who-really-profits-in-todays-economy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:37:23","slug":"the-divide-who-really-profits-in-todays-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/the-divide-who-really-profits-in-todays-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The divide: who really profits in today\u2019s economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broadway flops despite rising ticket costs, farmers face huge shortfalls largely due to Trump\u2019s tariffs, tech cashes in<\/p>\n<p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I spent the weekend wondering about the insistent feeling in the United States that few but the ultra-rich, even businesses, are making enough money to afford the basics of a comfortable life.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times published a story recently about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/22\/theater\/broadway-musicals-finances.html\">Broadway\u2019s rising costs<\/a> that featured the grim stat: \u201cNone of the musicals that opened last season have made a profit.\u201d The shows\u2019 failure to recoup their investments comes even as Broadway tickets are more expensive than ever before. So who is making any money?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/sep\/28\/the-guardian-view-on-ai-and-jobs-the-tech-revolution-should-be-for-the-many-not-the-few\">The Guardian view on AI and jobs: the tech revolution should be for the many not the few | Editorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/28\/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free\">Why I gave the world wide web away for free<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/sep\/27\/zuckerberg-ai-glasses-fail\">Zuckerberg hailed AI \u2018superintelligence\u2019. Then his smart glasses failed on stage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/picture\/2025\/sep\/27\/madeline-horwath-ai-chatbots-cognitive-decline-cartoon\">Madeline Horwath on AI chatbots and cognitive decline \u2013 cartoon<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/30\/broadway-meta-facebook-youtube\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e59a49b5789b1949e5a71f39dada5331e2a08693\/500_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a14afb88e55cc883f7a697bcb67a9d98\" title=\"The divide: who really profits in today\u2019s economy?\" \/>Broadway flops despite rising ticket costs, farmers face huge shortfalls largely due to Trump\u2019s tariffs, tech cashes in<br \/>\nHello, and welcome to TechScape. I spent the weekend wondering about the insistent feeling in the United States that few but the ultra-rich, even businesses, are making enough money to afford the basics of a comfortable life.<br \/>\nThe New York Times published a story recently about Broadway\u2019s rising costs that featured the grim stat: \u201cNone of the musicals that opened last season have made a profit.\u201d The shows\u2019 failure to recoup their investments comes even as Broadway tickets are more expensive than ever before. So who is making any money?<br \/>\nThe Guardian view on AI and jobs: the tech revolution should be for the many not the few | Editorial<br \/>\nWhy I gave the world wide web away for free<br \/>\nZuckerberg hailed AI \u2018superintelligence\u2019. Then his smart glasses failed on stage<br \/>\nMadeline Horwath on AI chatbots and cognitive decline \u2013 cartoon Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadway flops despite rising ticket costs, farmers face huge shortfalls largely due to Trump\u2019s tariffs, tech cashes in Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I spent the weekend wondering about the insistent feeling in the United States that few but the ultra-rich, even businesses, are making enough money to afford the basics of a comfortable life. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/the-divide-who-really-profits-in-todays-economy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The divide: who really profits in today\u2019s economy?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20285"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}