............is the root of all evil.
No matter how you argue the point everything revolves around Money. All sorts of alternative
economic systems have been investigated and implemented. All of them have the exact same
problems that money creates: One person's perception of value differs from the next. The bank charges you
15% interest on your loan. They think it is fair, you don't.
The supermarket offers you a bargain at a bargain price . Both of you think it is fair until you see the same
product somewhere else at a lesser price. Those bastards ! They wanted to screw me!
In Scotland there is a little town called "Aberfeldy" Scotlands first fair trade village , I think it said.
I will be doing a bit of research on this and write about it in a new post.
Why I quoted this is that this is exactly what we should be looking for in any trade-off: Fairness for all involved. This is a human thing - Governments and institutions will never get this right for the simple reason that there will always be money involved, and money breeds greed!
Unfortunately for now MONEY RULES (OK?)
There is one reason and one reason only why businesses fail :
They run out of money.
There is one reason and one reason only why good business plans do not get implemented:
The lack of money
There is one reason and one reason only why individuals are liquidated / loose their possessions /……………?
They ran out of money.
There is one reason and one reason only why there is greed in this world
Money
As an Entrepreneurial trainer one of the things I advocate is that your vision must be bigger than yourself and it also must not be Money. But going from zero to one unfortunately requires money. If you take money out of any commercial (or charity) equation it will fail. This is (unfortunately) the ultimate fact of life.
Trying to change the way the world thinks is in my opinion a total waste of time. Trying to change peoples views are easy : You do it exactly as you would trying to eat an elephant : Small piece by small piece. One person at a time. . And you must have a very good workable system to replace any existing (not so effective )principle.
People tend to follow a strong leader. Even those with stupid ideas. Hitler and Malema are good examples. So did the British with Winston Churchill who was a charismatic and stunning leader. So where does this leave us ? Work on your ideas and get it practically implementable. Draw charismatic leaders to yourself.
Sell your idea and get them to sell it. And you will find that in your immediate vicinity things might just start changing.
This brings me to the parable of the 12 apostles?
They took the Masters message and multiplied it and no one can challenge the outcome 2000 years later.
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