Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide
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There are at least two major roadblocks hindering this needed Freedom Shift.
The first is habit. Our society has become habituated, at times addicted, to certain lifestyles.
For example, when the recession hit, people spent more money, not [...]
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The Power of Entrepreneurship
The wooden stake that overcomes the vampire of an inelastic class system is entrepreneurial success.
Becoming a producer and successfully creating new value in society helps the entrepreneur surpass [...]
A “Georgic economy” occurs when families plant seeds after preparing the ground; they then water, tend, protect, and eventually harvest.
In our modern day, it is experienced by families who adopt Georgic principles in their finances. It is compared to banking as well: Banks plant seeds (of capital) and harvests increase over time.
When America shifted from [...]
Produced by Erik Proulx, Lemonade is a “project by and for those who have been affected by unemployment.” It’s about people who lost their job, but found their calling in the process.
I don’t know how many members of our community have been affected by unemployment, but current statistics tell us that it’s 1 in 10.
As [...]
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It may seem oxymoronic to say that pragmatic Independents have ideals, but they are actually as driven as conservatives and liberals.
Independents want government, markets and society to work, and to work well. They don’t believe in utopia, but they do think that [...]
Seth Godin’s latest book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, releases today.
I haven’t read it yet, but judging from Seth’s other books I’m sure it will be an indispensable (pun intended) book in the freeman’s 21st Century library.
It leaped to the top of my list when I watched the following interview with Seth by David Meerman Scott.
It’s [...]
Revealing Lessons On Booms & Busts From A Bread Salesman
One of my early jobs was as a Wonder Bread and Hostess snack salesman servicing Mesquite, Nevada, a small casino town.
Interestingly, pushing bread and Twinkies taught me much about the economy, and it specifically gave me the ability to see through economic fallacies.
One of the lies [...]
In The Coming Aristocracy, Oliver DeMille teaches that “mini-factories” are the greatest freedom trend of our time. A mini-factory is “where you do something that has been done historically by institutions, but you do it just as well (or in a way that is preferable for some reason) on a smaller scale.”
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The third type of producer is the investor, and the fourth type is the entrepreneur.
This needs little commentary among producers, who nearly all realize that entrepreneurship is necessary to create [...]
In Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Myths that are Destroying Your Prosperity, Garrett Gunderson and I highlight the following study, which is found in Getting Rich Your Own Way by Srully Blotnick:
In 1960, Mr. Blotnick began a study of 1,500 people representing a cross-section of middle-class America. Throughout the twenty-year study, they lost almost a [...]
