It's so often heard that things are bad, everything is made cheaply, jobs are gone... people are clambering toward the government, hand out, looking for a fix. It's never going to happen. When did everyone become hapless, hopeless victims?
The Internet blows open the doors for opportunity. Has done for over 10 years. Many people relegate the opportunities on the Internet to the same big companies they've always turned to. They've been trained since diaperdom to look to those brands by the tens of thousands of advertisements they've been exposed to on TV.
Who goes on the Internet and accesses WalMart? That is the epitome of cluelessness!!
If you heed the call, you can engage in business and forego the sickening, propped up greater, macro-economy that benefits only the "few". Buy an item made by someone whose name you know, whose face you see, whose message is just for you. Bespoke, customization, commissionbed work is at your fingertips. Buy something you can pass down to your children that will still have good taste and sturdy quality. Handmade. Handcrafted.
Then turn around, and learn to DIY. Figure out what you can contribute, and go for it! Put your best foot forward, and go online and present your own quality product to the world. It is not rocket surgery, but very likely, it will require you to learn something new.
We are not helpless or hapless, and everything is not being made cheaply, and jobs are not gone. Unless you choose helplessness, you should embrace the new reality that sustainable micro-economies are "where it's at". The only questions are, "what can you contribute?" and "what are you waiting for?"
Too many people aren't aware, or don't understand the opportunity and potential that "we the people" have to take back our economy, into our own two hands, creating something of value, and supporting one another. Time to get our act together east of the Mississippi, and don't let the "rust belt" designation continue to be a self fulfilling prophesy. :) We need more collaboration at the grass roots level here, now. If we are unable to aim ourselves toward a better future for small businesses in the United States, we are lost in despair.
A conference would be helpful, and I suspect some groups have met and gotten the word out on the left coast far more than in the east.
If there are any plans for such collaboration in the east, I hope someone will inform me of it! Meanwhile, I'll keep my ear to the ground and report on any developments that I find.
There's no "dream", there is a very ripe reality awaiting those who step up and claim it.
What will you contribute?
