Human Technology For World Development
| Category: Home Based Business - Marketing | Date: 2003-06-24 |
The purpose of my business is not simply to earn money. My business is about helping others to achieve independence from greedy Multi-national corporations and governments. Many of you who have been subscribed for some time know I like to ponder the future of the Internet. I especially enjoy reporting trends in developing countries. This is an editorial that expresses my personal point of view.
My last job was with a large corporation. A five-year college education was required, yet the average starting single gross income was less than $20,000. Many of my co-workers had just finished college and were re-paying huge college loans; usually more than $30,000 each. Married couples both working full time and paying off school loans, many lasting 10 years or longer. Most were earning less than $20,000 in combined annual income after paying school loan payments..
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I couldnt understand why governments consider this to be a good economy because everyone is working. To me, a good economy exists when we do not all need to work full time.
The recent World Trade Organizations meetings in Seattle Washington is a good example of how multi-national corporations are trying to consolidate economic power into the hands of a few greedy governments and multi-national corporations. This year, more than 50,000 working class people marched against the closed-door trade meetings held by non-elected representatives all over the word. Many of the representatives were sponsored directly by big business.
There is a worldwide struggle going on to help reclaim our health, freedom and prosperity. The Internet makes it possible for anyone with a good idea and a little money to influence not only the local economy and eventually the entire worlds economy.
In the western world we are brainwashed into believing that bigger is better. On-line a tiny company with big ideas can go head to head against much larger businesses using direct person-to-person and referrer marketing.
In much of the world, the trend to use existing technologies to produce our primary needs are increasingly owned and managed by small independent owners.
Multi-national corporations are already losing ground, as they tend to exploit resources and their own society. On the other hand, tiny companies and the Internet can produce locally, sell locally, eliminate the middlemen and reduce marketing costs.
Today I want to share another point of view. I found the following web site while surfing the net.
TINY TECH PLANTS
http://www.tinytechindia.com/
I do not have any commercial relationship with this company; They dont know I am writing this article. I will not earn anything if you purchase something from this company. However I do share many their following convictions and objectives.
BASIC CONVICTIONS
1) The dreadful problems appearing nowadays in the world such as unemployment, hunger, exploitation, disparity, pollution, urbanization, war, etc. are direct result of heavy and centralized industries.
2) The modern civilization, based on wasteful expenditure of natural resources, is destined to end in near future.
3) Decentralization has already started; the world will throw away the dogma of industrialization.
4) The process of splitting the bigger factories into small units has already started.
5) Principles of more economic viabilities for bigger units are illusionary. In fact where social cost is considered, bigger units can never be viable.
6) Complex giant technology has given rise to complex ways of living, due to which greed and selfishness have captured human minds, and we have lost the way of happiness.
7) Real happiness is possible only through simple living, which is possible through simple and small technology only. Complicated machinery makes simple complicated.
8) The World can live in peace and harmony only if we create self sustained societies.
9) When production is made for consumption and not for marketing, present theories of economics crumble.
10) Small is possible at every stage, in every industry, in every country. Small is inevitable in every industry related to primary needs of the common masses in every country on Earth.
11) Present tax collection systems can exist only on centralized form of heavy industries. This facilitates and increases legalized robbery of people by Governments and Corporations.
BUSINESS OBJECTIVES
1) To promote tiny enterprises for rural development in various industrial fields using local raw materials and for local use.
2) To promote tiny enterprises for agricultural processing at local level to achieve self reliance, to remove exploitation of the poor rural people, to generate income at local level, to generate employment in villages etc.
3) To design and develop simple and small technology and cheap technology for developing countries for various industrial fields.
4) To design and develop appropriate technology & intermediate technology for the village industries related to basic needs of the people.
5) To promote small scale projects for self help projects for the communities and villages.
6) To develop small scale decentralized technology for decentralizing various industries. 7) To promote tiny enterprises to make available various chemical free natural products.
8) To promote women entrepreneurship by making available to women appropriate technology for family size enterprises.
9) To improve the quality of life and elevate the standard of living in developing countries through homogeneous development of the society.
The company "Tiny Tech Plants" offers several cottage industries to 27 countries. They have exported over 900 mills in India, Burkina faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Centrafrique, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Almost all the mills are running successfully.
I hope this article will help you understand this important marketing trend. Its a very different way of thinking about the future.
When you think about it, mankind has been doing business on a smaller scale for centuries. Our industrialized economy has barely been around for the last hundred years.
The very nature of Western Capitalist culture is to capitalize on the labor of others, earning more from their labor than they earn for themselves.
In the United States many are not earning more income than they earned in the 1970s. Yet our cost of living has more than doubled. In the 1960s one person could work one job and earn enough to live the American dream. In ther 1970s we were able to own our own car at a cost of about $3,000, own a house for about $12,000 depending on where we lived. Today it takes two or more full time jobs just to purchase our basic needs. Cars now cost from $12,000 to $100,000 and in most areas a decent home cost starts out at around $100,000.
I honestly cant understand why our current economy is considered to be good. Just because everyone who can work is working doesnt say anything about the quality of life. Who is left raising our children? Why have kids just to work long hours only to support someone else raising them. Am I missing something?
Income from jobs has been declining as well as the security that a good job with a good company USED to offer. A new home-based business opens every ten seconds - 25% of North America is involved in some sort of home business. The average home-based business generates over $50,000 yearly in income, while the average full time wage is only $ 22,000.
Its reported that over 20% of new businesses are home based. This growing trend is seen clearly on the Internet.
You really can earn a good income working from home, but only if you take your home business seriously. The Internet doesnt care, so its up to you and I to make a commercial success of your part time businesses, eventually building it into a full-time endeavor.
Best Wishes
Bob
:To contact see details below.
bob@smithfam.com
My last job was with a large corporation. A five-year college education was required, yet the average starting single gross income was less than $20,000. Many of my co-workers had just finished college and were re-paying huge college loans; usually more than $30,000 each. Married couples both working full time and paying off school loans, many lasting 10 years or longer. Most were earning less than $20,000 in combined annual income after paying school loan payments..
Something was wrong with this picture.
I couldnt understand why governments consider this to be a good economy because everyone is working. To me, a good economy exists when we do not all need to work full time.
The recent World Trade Organizations meetings in Seattle Washington is a good example of how multi-national corporations are trying to consolidate economic power into the hands of a few greedy governments and multi-national corporations. This year, more than 50,000 working class people marched against the closed-door trade meetings held by non-elected representatives all over the word. Many of the representatives were sponsored directly by big business.
There is a worldwide struggle going on to help reclaim our health, freedom and prosperity. The Internet makes it possible for anyone with a good idea and a little money to influence not only the local economy and eventually the entire worlds economy.
In the western world we are brainwashed into believing that bigger is better. On-line a tiny company with big ideas can go head to head against much larger businesses using direct person-to-person and referrer marketing.
In much of the world, the trend to use existing technologies to produce our primary needs are increasingly owned and managed by small independent owners.
Multi-national corporations are already losing ground, as they tend to exploit resources and their own society. On the other hand, tiny companies and the Internet can produce locally, sell locally, eliminate the middlemen and reduce marketing costs.
Today I want to share another point of view. I found the following web site while surfing the net.
TINY TECH PLANTS
http://www.tinytechindia.com/
I do not have any commercial relationship with this company; They dont know I am writing this article. I will not earn anything if you purchase something from this company. However I do share many their following convictions and objectives.
BASIC CONVICTIONS
1) The dreadful problems appearing nowadays in the world such as unemployment, hunger, exploitation, disparity, pollution, urbanization, war, etc. are direct result of heavy and centralized industries.
2) The modern civilization, based on wasteful expenditure of natural resources, is destined to end in near future.
3) Decentralization has already started; the world will throw away the dogma of industrialization.
4) The process of splitting the bigger factories into small units has already started.
5) Principles of more economic viabilities for bigger units are illusionary. In fact where social cost is considered, bigger units can never be viable.
6) Complex giant technology has given rise to complex ways of living, due to which greed and selfishness have captured human minds, and we have lost the way of happiness.
7) Real happiness is possible only through simple living, which is possible through simple and small technology only. Complicated machinery makes simple complicated.
8) The World can live in peace and harmony only if we create self sustained societies.
9) When production is made for consumption and not for marketing, present theories of economics crumble.
10) Small is possible at every stage, in every industry, in every country. Small is inevitable in every industry related to primary needs of the common masses in every country on Earth.
11) Present tax collection systems can exist only on centralized form of heavy industries. This facilitates and increases legalized robbery of people by Governments and Corporations.
BUSINESS OBJECTIVES
1) To promote tiny enterprises for rural development in various industrial fields using local raw materials and for local use.
2) To promote tiny enterprises for agricultural processing at local level to achieve self reliance, to remove exploitation of the poor rural people, to generate income at local level, to generate employment in villages etc.
3) To design and develop simple and small technology and cheap technology for developing countries for various industrial fields.
4) To design and develop appropriate technology & intermediate technology for the village industries related to basic needs of the people.
5) To promote small scale projects for self help projects for the communities and villages.
6) To develop small scale decentralized technology for decentralizing various industries. 7) To promote tiny enterprises to make available various chemical free natural products.
8) To promote women entrepreneurship by making available to women appropriate technology for family size enterprises.
9) To improve the quality of life and elevate the standard of living in developing countries through homogeneous development of the society.
The company "Tiny Tech Plants" offers several cottage industries to 27 countries. They have exported over 900 mills in India, Burkina faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Centrafrique, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Almost all the mills are running successfully.
I hope this article will help you understand this important marketing trend. Its a very different way of thinking about the future.
When you think about it, mankind has been doing business on a smaller scale for centuries. Our industrialized economy has barely been around for the last hundred years.
The very nature of Western Capitalist culture is to capitalize on the labor of others, earning more from their labor than they earn for themselves.
In the United States many are not earning more income than they earned in the 1970s. Yet our cost of living has more than doubled. In the 1960s one person could work one job and earn enough to live the American dream. In ther 1970s we were able to own our own car at a cost of about $3,000, own a house for about $12,000 depending on where we lived. Today it takes two or more full time jobs just to purchase our basic needs. Cars now cost from $12,000 to $100,000 and in most areas a decent home cost starts out at around $100,000.
I honestly cant understand why our current economy is considered to be good. Just because everyone who can work is working doesnt say anything about the quality of life. Who is left raising our children? Why have kids just to work long hours only to support someone else raising them. Am I missing something?
Income from jobs has been declining as well as the security that a good job with a good company USED to offer. A new home-based business opens every ten seconds - 25% of North America is involved in some sort of home business. The average home-based business generates over $50,000 yearly in income, while the average full time wage is only $ 22,000.
Its reported that over 20% of new businesses are home based. This growing trend is seen clearly on the Internet.
You really can earn a good income working from home, but only if you take your home business seriously. The Internet doesnt care, so its up to you and I to make a commercial success of your part time businesses, eventually building it into a full-time endeavor.
Best Wishes
Bob
:To contact see details below.
bob@smithfam.com
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