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sixty get the. key to know that seventy seven percent. are younger than six of pot. that's me and me and you. and you know what it's time all voices. on the seventy seven percent to talk about because. this is where because. the seventy seven percent this weekend on d w. the only order is history the world is reorganizing itself and the media's role is keep shifting powers the topic in focus at the global media forum twenty nineteen the laboratory for the digital age kids. who are more responsible way do we trust.
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debate and shape the future at the georgia village global media forum twenty nineteen the place made for money. from rich oil nation to crisis state venezuela descends into chaos we take a look at how one of latin america's most prosperous countries hit rock bottom. also on the show today is labor day how do we want to work we need to the founder of a startup where employees dictate their working hours. and europe's best known gambling hop monaco is going green. hello and welcome to the business i'm michael jones in berlin good to have you with us and we're starting in then is the way where thousands of people took to the streets in an uprising against the government of president nicolas maduro government corruption and
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a global commodity passed plunged the oil rich nation into chaos once one of south america's wealthiest countries and israel has been in a self-inflicted economic crisis for years. but israel and have had enough and they want change now over the last five years their economy has been in a freefall. the country's g.d.p. has been tumbling the venezuelan economy has been declining since twenty thirteen the decrease has been in the double digits in recent years it hit eighteen percent in twenty eighteen and venezuela is now home to the highest inflation in the world the country's hyperinflation is at a staggering ten million percent imagine the cost of something going from one dollar to one hundred thousand dollars within days. the economy has imploded and the countryside this is special
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a badly hit farm animals are dying the agricultural sector has buckled. up and. we cannot feed our livestock pumps refrigerators tanks don't work we cannot produce anymore we can't run our farms without electricity. at a time when venezuela's farmers are most needed their ability to reproductive has been shattered just one of the reasons ordinary food items are now a luxury oil rich venezuela was once one of south america's wealthiest nations and it is now among the region's poorest. today is the first of may labor day a national holiday here in germany with thousands taking to the streets to call for better working conditions better pay more work life balance you name it but does work really have to be such a struggle not when you ask employees of
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a bilin startup called homo unicon they can choose when they come to work and they don't take orders from the boss take a look. begin condoms in colorful packaging as well as temperance and sanitary napkins are among the products offered by einhorn on paper the founders of autumn are tyler and philip z. for are still the managing directors but none of the company's sixteen employees have to take orders from them it's even written in their contracts this is the man who will miss everything we do is basically what respectable business people used to do by doing business with a conscience it works and it's possible to be successful it's just about redistribution we're highly profitable even though we reinvest everything into creating value despite treating everyone fairly we still post millions of euros in sales. last year sells rose to two point three million euros even though the office is almost empty this morning nobody knows when the others are coming and nobody
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checks bottom outside the says when employees love their jobs they don't have to be supervised like children. i've never been so happy about a job it's really something special and we're all motivated we're happy to go to work and everybody's glad to get up in the morning that's what we have here. from the designer to the person processing online orders einhorn says satisfied employees are part of its success. but there's another reason. that has to do with what the owners say we don't have to get seventy five to eighty percent of the pie we just want the share we deserve and share the rest with the time a salary committee determines pay levels according to professional experience and education it also decides how much the founders earn. this decision is. it's important for the salary committee to always keep the team in mind so everyone
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feels they're being treated fairly. but of course it has to take each individual into account as well and. that requires a lot of coordination working without a boss can be a challenge. constance feels you can really run free and have a lot of creative ideas but you are responsible for implementing them the best way to do that is by inspiring the whole team with your enthusiasm and sometimes that's not at all easy. some employees in a special unit speak at events about the new work culture but while many companies just talk about what work will look like in the future at einhorn they are already trying it out. interesting concept joining me now in the studio is philip cif co-founder and chief executive of einhorn or unicorn as we translated it for all of us watching it i see a lot of smiling people given the fact that this is also financially successful
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your concept to understand why they still exist nine to five jobs well of course there's always new concepts coming up and then there's old concepts that don't go away that fast but i think the world is moving and there will be more and more companies i mean companies are working and new work is a big trend so it's not just us doing this but that does this does attract mostly young people or is this kind of flexible workplace model that we've seen also now in the video is that something also for the elder generation absolutely i think like young people are doing it this is a whole most like trend start that young people start taking over something and then they live like they want to live and if but if you see who visits our office to book like a startup safari and see how we work how i understand your office that's all people mostly. and they come visit us like it's like a start of the you know mercy just comes by and then they say look what i'm doing
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and then they try to find out and copy and yeah i'm hoping the next question comes up i mean your startup we talked about it it's about twenty employees that you're having so that it's not a huge company it it can that what plays model that you have to be a pollute print for bigger companies like mercedes big corporates with that work well i think it's not a blueprint at the moment it's like we're building a house and there's no blueprint and we don't know how the house looks in the end but we will have a blueprint when the house is built and now it's a work in progress but of course there's a lot of things that we do that you can adapt to companies in traditional companies too like what like partnership instead of transaction like. a partnership with. in the employees within the staff or with. ok if you work with other companies start ups to digitally try to get everything out and move very quickly and if you don't pay the right price then we just take the next and we try
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to boots actually that's something we took from the old world because it's very attractive to work with partners for a long time and rely on each other so more sustainability and that in that sense as well even though it's a fast moving modern world i would be interested in just a couple of details that we touched upon in that in that film i mean employees can basically say how much they want to and they can say when they come in now i start my shift at five in the morning if i had a say in it i would probably not do it how do you get people doing things like that well if you do what you love you get out what you put in you know and if you really love your job then it's probably fine to get up to five in the morning right so if you but like in all of just sixteen for example people don't like to come to work early in the morning so we said do condoms and all the products really need to arrive the next morning no they don't so if you come to work at eleven that's fine for us so if you say i would like to have the show in the afternoon maybe that
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would work but i think it's just really. all you move to california it's a different times and i think that'll be it will make all the difference what about pay you know if i go in and i say ok i have a very specific idea what i want to and i mean how do you. find out what is the right amount of salary we have like a formula it's a big exit sheet and it says how many kids do you have do you have grandparents do you have a dog that had to do you have special needs or anything and then how much experience what you just started to do you have any education and then we calculate a number and we say there's that magic needs and also we have like a triple is the maximum you can earn to the highest so there's some rules that we apply. then we have this concept. of people who voted for for the way very democratic approach as well but i believe it also takes a lot of sort of business people that take the initiative and don't mind leading
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themselves very interesting concept there phillips the founder and chief executive of einhorn or unique on a billion based startup thank you so much for your time thank you. and now to some other business stories from around the world. labor unions in argentina have called a twenty four hour strike to protest president merissa economic policies they're calling for efforts to fight unemployment and boost incomes the country is in a deep recession with inflation over fifty percent the strike has had to many sectors including public transport and banks trade negotiators from the u.s. and china have resumed talks aimed at ending a month long tariff war among other demands washington wants beijing to roll back industry development plans it's based in part on stolen technology u.s. treasury secretary stigma nugent said both sides will close to an agreement. facebook says it will restructure its platform to be more private at the social
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media giants annual conference c.e.o. mark zuckerberg and nouns you end to end encryption for its messaging service and the ability to hide likes to use reactions to content. high rollers proclaim from pain and convertible old snow those are some of the things that come to mind whenever monaco is mentioned but now europe's gambling capital wants to bed bake on something else sustainability that race. monaco is pretty but it's also bursting at the seams a building boom is to blame almost forty thousand people live on a tract of land measuring two square kilometers. at the palace at the rock of monaco prince albert the second is using rapeseed oil for heat he says if all the buildings in his principality were heated with rapeseed oil monaco could slash c o two emissions by half. to school especially the past few months all the measures
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we've been putting in place are due to our objective of honoring the commitments we made to the paris climate accord. monaco promise to half its greenhouse gas emissions by twenty thirty and replacing fossil fuels with rapeseed would help but critics say the plant is just a green wash and that rapeseed would take away valuable land used for growing food in neighboring countries and that's the business thanks for watching.
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their sweet starts may second. hello and welcome to news from arts and culture i'm karen helm said and in this edition but nanna's as a symbol of freedom in poland we'll see why artists have staged an inn in front of the national museum in warsaw and also coming up. the berlin philharmonic has just rolled out its plans for the season starting in august marking the beginning of a new era for the orchestra under chief conductor. and celebrations in events abounds to commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the death of leonardo da vinci we look into the legacy of the tuscan master.
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artists in poland have taken to the street and to social media to protest the decision to remove a video installation from the national museum in warsaw the video in question by a prominent artist natalia l l dates from one thousand nine hundred seventy three and depicts a young woman eating a banana in a suggestive way well although it's been on display for many years conservative authorities have now branded it obscene sparking concerns that artistic freedom is under threat. occasionally protesting can be at tasty affair hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of the polish national museum in warsaw to eat bananas together look at this when you move forward in the name of artistic freedom . we fully reject censorship in arts over the past few years our freedoms have been increasingly compromised and now it's our turn to look at the story of the shoes
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we're protesting against the removal of our freedom of speach.