发表时间：2024.10.24     作者：Jingyi     来源：ShoelessCai     阅读：202

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2024年10月22日，北京，库克与音乐人刘柏辛合影。当日，苹果公司首席执行官库克今年二度访问中国，上次是在3月，当时上海开设了一家新的苹果专卖店。法新社报道称，苹果正在寻求巩固其关键海外市场的销售业绩。

iPhone目前仍深受中国消费者的欢迎，但近年来，苹果公司在中国市场的份额已不如本土竞争对手。数据分析公司Counterpoint表示，由于旧款机型销量下滑，以及华为Mate和Pura系列的竞争加剧，这三周内 iPhone 在中国的整体销量同比下降了 2%。

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原标题：彭博推送 | 人民在创造新的经济

本文由 Jingyi 翻译，百度翻译助力。

译文

自从 2018 年，彭博就在商界、政界领导者中召集对话，以帮助搭建起分割的南北对话。这件事情雏形，称为彭博经济新闻 Bloomberg New Economy，目标是产生想法和移动资本，基本技能技术来解决全世界最棘手问题（pressing problem）。为了与最近事件一致，10月22-23日发生在Sao Paulo 的事，彭博商周展示了一系列故事，关于合作、异花传粉，无论 e-waste 还是亚马逊，都带给生活新经济。

convene 召集，集合
pressing problem 棘手问题
coinside with 与…一致

例如：

在尼日利亚拉各斯，Tijjani Abubakar 管理惊奇的、有利润的商业。他出售垃圾，从一个世界最穷的国家获取，出售到该国最富裕的地方。富国的问题在于，在穷区丢弃电子废品，这些都很好地计入档案。那些远远未涉及报导的，即增长的电子废弃物正在往另一个方向移动，即富人区，由企业家们驱动，他们遍布南半球。Vince Beiser 是 Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future 作者，将我们带入未许可的网络，不交税的清道夫，以及捡垃圾的人，这些人出售电子垃圾到当地交易商。读文章 The Surprisingly Lucrative Business of Recycled E-Waste。

Lagos 拉各斯
detritus 废品，残渣

Rubana Huq 服装厂是经常有打铁的嘶嘶声杂音，狂热粉丝，和暗藏的剪刀。大量的工业设备在达卡（Bangladesh 孟加拉国）附近，几百名妇女指导服装行业，通过缝纫机。他们生产的服装，例如 H&M，Pepe牛仔裤，Primark。这一场景唤醒了十几个国家的增长策略，近几十年都是如此：工厂雇佣一个队伍的人工，来生产商品出口，工资是低的，在西方标准来说，但是相对在当地已经很高了。然而，随着自动化发展，剧本（playbook）越来越少地产生经济扩张，穷国需要提升生存标准。Kai Schultz 和 Shruti Srivastava 写到，旧范式如何改变：发展中国家不能指望生产制造，来主导增长。

automated jacquard machine 自动提花机
Dhaka 达卡，孟加拉
cacophony 刺耳的杂音
hissing 嘶嘶声
swoosh 哗哗地迅速移动
snipping 狙击
snipping scissors 狙击的剪刀
swooshing fans 狂热的粉丝
legions 军团

催化剂：“代理商唤醒或加速显著改变和行动”，依据韦氏字典。更好的描述 16 个发明家，企业家，远见者，活动者，投资人，他们组成了 Bloomberg New Economy 2024 年的催化剂。他们试图看到更好的世界，并且能够变成现实。他们包括巴西的 Philip Kauders，他使用数据驱动的平台，来重新在地球造林（reforest the earth）。嘎纳的 Kofi Owusu-Nhyira，他处理全非洲的支付结算问题。香港的 Yihao Zhu，他开发免电力的方法来降低大楼温度。以及，澳大利亚的 Catherine Hutchins，Aniyo Rahebi，他们创造不浪费的、可吃的杯子。

其他故事

德国简短的实验，开展了 4 个工作日，结束了。但是，很多商业人士参与，没有人往回走。“我不想在周五继续工作了。就是不想。”Soren Fricke 说到，一家活动策划公司 Solidsense 创始人说到，“周五事实上变成周末的第三天。只有没选择的人才工作。”

Solidsense 是 45 家公司之一，这些公司参与了 6 个月的试验，这期间，雇员工作更少时间，但是薪资不变。最终，73% 的参与者认为，他们准备永久改变，或者延长实验，依据实验组织者 10 月 18 日出具的报导。

结果再一次被证实，参与者希望的内容。更短的工作周提升雇员物理健康，以及心理健康。雇主也看到好处，70% 的人汇报，招工更容易了，一旦他们每周工作 4 天，这也逐渐在这些国家流行，特征是很多行业抱怨紧张的竞争，主要是人才竞争提升了成本。10 来个参与者汇报细节，他们的财务表现，显示收入和利润都是很稳定的。

原文

Since 2018, Bloomberg has been convening dialogues among leaders in business and government to help bridge the divide between the Global North and the Global South. The initiative, called Bloomberg New Economy, aims to generate ideas and mobilize capital, know-how and technology to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. To coincide with its latest event, Oct. 22-23 in São Paulo, Bloomberg Businessweek presents stories of collaboration and cross-pollination, whether in e-waste or the Amazon, that bring new economies to life.

Here’s a sample:

In Lagos, Nigeria, Tijjani Abubakar runs a surprising, and lucrative, business: He sells trash from one of the world’s poorest countries to some of its wealthiest. The problem of rich countries dumping electronic waste in poor ones has been well-documented. What’s far less reported is that there’s a growing flood of digital detritus moving in the opposite direction, driven by entrepreneurs across the Global South. Vince Beiser, the author of Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future, takes us inside the network of unlicensed, untaxed scavengers and waste pickers who sell valuable e-waste to local brokers: The Surprisingly Lucrative Business of Recycled E-Waste

Rubana Huq’s garment factory is a constant cacophony of hissing steam irons, swooshing fans and snipping scissors. In the vast industrial facility near Dhaka, Bangladesh, hundreds of women guide pieces of fabric through sewing machines, stitching clothing for the likes of H&M, Pepe Jeans and Primark. The scene evokes the growth strategy dozens of countries have followed in recent decades: factories employing legions of workers to produce goods for export, at wages that are low by Western standards but relatively generous in local terms. But as automation spreads, that playbook is less and less able to generate the economic expansion poorer countries need to raise standards of living. Kai Schultz and Shruti Srivastava write about how the old paradigms are changing: Developing Countries Can’t Count on Manufacturing to Supercharge Growth

Catalyst: “An agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action,” according to Merriam-Webster. What better way to describe the 16 inventors, entrepreneurs, visionaries, activists and investors who make up Bloomberg New Economy’s class of 2024 Catalysts? They’re trying to turn visions of a better world into reality. They include Philip Kauders of Brazil, who’s using a data-driven platform to reforest the Earth; Kofi Owusu-Nhyira of Ghana, who’s processing payments across Africa; Yihao Zhu of Hong Kong, who’s developing electricity-free ways to cool buildings; and Catherine Hutchins and Aniyo Rahebi of Australia, who are creating waste-free, edible cups. Find more about them and the others here: The Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst List

A Promising Story If You Really Dislike Mondays

Germany’s brief experiment with a four-day workweek is over, but for many of the businesses that participated, there’s no going back. “I don’t want to work on Fridays anymore. I just don’t,” says Sören Fricke, co-founder of event planner Solidsense. “Friday has actually become the third day of the weekend. You only work if there is no other option.”

Solidsense is one of 45 companies that participated in the six-month trial, during which employees worked fewer hours but still received their full paycheck. In the end, 73% of the participants said they’re prepared to make the change permanent or extend the experiment, according to a report released by the trial’s organizers on Oct. 18.

The results confirmed what the participants had hoped. The shorter workweek improved employees’ physical health and mental well-being. Employers saw benefits, too: 70% reported that recruiting workers was easier once they went to a four-day schedule—a boon in a country where many industries complain that intense competition for talent drives up costs. A dozen participants reported details of their financial performance, showing revenue and profit were stable overall.

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