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Survey Shows Young Europeans Losing Sleep Over Crisis Anxiety

DIE WELT(Germany)

Worldcrunch

A Europe-wide study produced by the GfK research group for Swiss insurance company Zurich Versicherung has found that worry, stress and anxiety about the future affect young Europeans to such an extent that many of them can’t sleep at night.

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In September, reports Die Welt, GfK polled a total of 500 young people in eight European countries.

In Germany, 57% of those between the ages of 14 and 29 reported sleep disturbances because of pressure at work or in school.

If young Germans – and young Swiss as well – take their daily stress to bed with them, in Italy, Austria, Russia, and Great Britain, although the economic situation may be a good deal less rosy, young people were not losing untoward amounts of sleep over daily worries.

Only 17% of Italians reported trouble sleeping because of work or school issues. However, 64% of Spaniards and 50% of Portuguese did report sleep trouble, which they linked to the present euro crisis.

Other showed that in general, families and religion were perceived as anchors of security in a world where jobs are not secure and politicians can’t be trusted. Twenty percent of young Germans said that their religion gave them greater feelings of security than the police.

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Influencer Union? The Next Labor Rights Battle May Be For Social Media Creators

With the end of the Hollywood writers and actors strikes, the creator economy is the next frontier for organized labor.

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Smartphone on a selfie stick

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David Craig and Stuart Cunningham

Hollywood writers and actors recently proved that they could go toe-to-toe with powerful media conglomerates. After going on strike in the summer of 2023, they secured better pay, more transparency from streaming services and safeguards from having their work exploited or replaced by artificial intelligence.

But the future of entertainment extends well beyond Hollywood. Social media creators – otherwise known as influencers, YouTubers, TikTokers, vloggers and live streamers – entertain and inform a vast portion of the planet.

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For the past decade, we’ve mapped the contours and dimensions of the global social media entertainment industry. Unlike their Hollywood counterparts, these creators struggle to be seen as entertainers worthy of basic labor protections.

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