Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to make money. It satisfies our selfish interest but not our collective interest.
Money begets money. If you don t have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that s generating income...
If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital...
Another way to achieve this is to let a business earn profit that is then taxed by the government, and the tax can be used to provide services to the poor. But in practice it never works that way. In real life, taxes only pay for a government...
The system we have built refuses to recognize people. Only credit cards are recognized. Drivers licenses are recognized. But not people. People haven t any use for faces anymore, it seems. They are busy looking at your credit card, your driver s license, your social security number....
The system we have built refuses to recognize people. Only credit cards are recognized. Drivers licenses are recognized. But not people. People haven t any use for faces anymore, it seems. They are busy looking at your credit card, your driver s license, your social security number....
Effective communication is the key to a successful partnership. In any partnership, the different parties have their own wants and goals. The main thing is to create bridges to arrive at a common goal.
Our financial institutions have created a worldwide system of apartheid without anyone being horrified by it. If you don t have collateral, you are not credit worthy. To the banks, you are not accepted on our side of the world.
The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn t really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way.
Conventional business will continue to grow. On the other side, social businesses also grows. But that doesn t mean you re cutting down profit-making companies. Profit making companies will also benefit, because if you solve the problems of the homeless or those on welfare, they will come into...
