John Hawkins is a writer for Bizpaq review, Brass Pills and is the editor Right Wing News. He’s also the author of 101 Things All Young Adults Should Know.

We talked about John’s article The Best Stats & Quotes From ‘Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse’, John’s take on the findings of that book. I mentioned the fact that the number of hours needed to work at minimum age to pay college tuition has increased about tenfold in the last 40 years, and the book Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam.

Here is the comparison between the minimum wage and average university tuition costs:

And this are the changes since 1979 in average wages, the wages of the top one per cent, and productivity.

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If, when I say TikTok, your mind goes to a

clock, then you are not in the demographic for TikTok.

TikTok is a video-sharing app, with a very

young demographic. It’s got something approaching a billion users, and that’s

not counting the users of a parallel app in China called Douyin, which is

basically identical, except firewalled off, to comply with Chinese censorship

laws.

To put that in context, Facebook took

almost eight years to get to a billion users. TikTok won’t be three years old

until September.

The videos are limited to 15 seconds in

duration, and as you might expect they normally center on music and youth

culture. If you want to feel old, download it and swipe through a few videos.

Users who get more than 1,