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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

10 Tips to Survive Through the 2016 Bubble and New Economy

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10 Tips To Survive During the 2016 Social Media Bubble and the New Economy…

Social media could become a major bubble. Money made from hype more than
from sales. How could a company like Facebook’s math add up? Investors
showed excitement when Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion. Making
each employee at WhatsApp worth over $300 million and acquiring 500
million users where each user needs to be at the value of $300 to break
even on the acquisition.

By using arithmetic it doesn’t seem like this
acquisition is anything close to a bargain yet investors are excited.
Don’t forget Facebook also tried to acquire Snapchat for $3 billion. A
service that has zero revenue, 30 million users (making each user worth
$100), and yet Mark Zuckerberg is still described as a genius. A genius
he might be but he is still only human.

The $2 billion dollar acquisition for Oculus which is 1000 times more than what is raised on
Kickstarter does not seem like a bargain. Yet, it might be so amazing
that it could become Facebook’s main money maker and put Xbox out of
business. Here are ways to survive the next economic recession during the
year 2017 if the Social Media Bubble actually happens. Hopefully, though
it won’t.

1. Rent your car via RelayRides
2. Become a Lyft or Uber driver to earn part time income
3. Don’t buy soda and instead use Soda Stream and make all your
carbonated beverages at home.
4. Kick out your roommate and rent out your home to travelers through
Airbnb or HomeAway. It will probably also cover your own part of the
rent.
5. If you seek to create a business don’t seek investors. Seek crowdfunding.
6. Find a way where you can earn small incomes by selling on Fiverr
7. Provide simulation classes with the Oculus Rift headset when it goes
mainstream and potentially dominates our lives.
8. Embrace the new sharing economy.
9. If you find a smartphone app that you really want but need to pay for.
Find a competitor offering a similar service for free. Nowadays, internet
based businesses are willing to lose money and not earn money for a long
time as a way to get a membership base.
10. Buy less and reuse more. With China and India growing and becoming
more of a consumer based society. The price of all resources will
probably go up and become a lot more expensive.

Paul Rothbein is a future enthusiast and the founder of The Perspective
2020 Directory to Everything, and the Perspective 2020 Almanac To
Everything: A Decade In Review. Both are due to be released in early
2015, with a Kickstarter campaign set for December More details can be
found on perspectivethemag.com

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Monday, October 20, 2014

To Build a New Economy, A New Government Must Come First

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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

To Build a New Economy, a New Government Comes First

National People’s Action Campaign is training the next wave of progressive candidates for 2016. Here’s how they could win.

by Jacob Swenson

This is a second piece from YES! Magazine about building a new economy…you may not like or agree with all the author says but it is certainly worthy of your attention because the old ways have not worked well for our nation, jeopardizing the Middle Class. >>the Poor Man

On a crisp autumn day in 2012, I joined a group of pastors and community leaders from the Illinois-Indiana Regional Organizing Network (IIRON) at a church on the south side of Chicago. We talked about the way corporations and the wealthy systematically hoarded political power over the last forty years to make our country work for them—instead of people like us. They built elite think tanks, bought the media, and took over universities. They fought back against the wave of pro-equality reforms that had been achieved in the 1950s and 1960s, and turned the tide in their favor.

That corporate-conservative movement transformed our political and economic landscape over the last 40 years, and the resulting shift has left us with growing economic and racial inequality, a broken democracy, and a planet on the verge of catastrophic climate change.

Government, after all, is the prize, not the problem.

Together, that day we recognized that the solutions our elected leaders had proposed were wholly inadequate to the scale of the crises we faced: We’d seen massive bailouts for banks, while thousands of homeowners in our neighborhoods faced foreclosure and were getting little help staying afloat; We faced a massive jobs crisis without a proposal for the kind of public jobs program we needed.

So, we began thinking about the transformations that could serve as the pillars of an economy that worked for people in our communities, instead of simply padding the pockets of bankers and shareholders.

We did not do this alone. Over a period of several months, hundreds of leaders from around the country participated in a similar visioning process led by National People’s Action, a grassroots network of economic and racial justice organizations. At NPA’s national conference in 2013, we unveiled our Long-Term Agenda to a New Economy, which outlined a 40-year plan to create a more just and sustainable political and economic system.

We recognized that making the fundamental changes we imaged would require reclaiming our government. Government, after all, is the prize, not the problem. It can and should be an equalizing force in our society to tame corporate power, democratize the economy, and revitalize the commons in our communities.

Reclaiming our government is no small task, given that moneyed interests dominate our contemporary politics and control significant portions of both major political parties. That is why I am also part of National People’s Action Campaign, NPA’s sister organization, which engages everyday people in making government work for us.

Together with our allies, we’re building a new left pole in American politics by mobilizing people and money to advance our own political platform and candidates. We’ve begun moving to scale with tactics such as mass volunteer canvasses, leadership training, and individual donor programs.

Ordinary people are volunteering their time and leading the effort to contact hundreds of thousands of voters—especially infrequent voters and voters of color—to make an impact this November. And we’re succeeding in organizing more people and money largely because of volunteer efforts.

The result is some of the most exciting grassroots political organizing in the country. In Kansas, for example, hundreds of African-American and Latino volunteers are contacting 112,000 infrequent voters to defeat radical, right-wing Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Governor Sam Brownback, and Senator Pat Roberts. In Minnesota, volunteers are not just defending progressive champions, but also energizing voters to pursue a bold agenda for economic equity in coming years.

More exciting still is the fact that Kansas People’s Action and Take Action Minnesota, the two organizations leading these efforts, won’t be sending those volunteers home on November 5th. Instead, they’ll invest in those leaders to advance an issue agenda that prioritizes people and the planet, and train a wave of grassroots leaders running for office in 2016.

Taking these efforts to scale will require increased collaboration between organizations in the movement and even more people willing to spend their Saturdays and evenings talking with voters. By working together, though, we can build the next great progressive movement to take back our government and create the kind of just and sustainable economy in which we want to live and work.

Jacob Swenson is the Communications Lead for National People’s Action and National People’s Action Campaign.

This post was written for the New Economy Coalition's second annual New Economy Week, an event exploring what it will take to build an economy that works for people, place, and planet. To learn more, visit New Economy Week.

The most dangerous element freedom faces are incompetent and/or corrupt politicians who are polluting our Constitution and bankrupting our nation.

Related Post: Although I disagree with Warren’s blame strictly on Republicans [both parties have been equal opportunity destroyers in my opinion] this is worth a read too.

Elizabeth Warren: 'The System Is Rigged'

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/elizabeth-warren-democratic-national-convention-system-rigged/story?id=17150134

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