Forum Post: A New Business Direction: Helping the Occupy Movement
Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 20, 2011, 12:34 a.m. EST by TTeply
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Hey guys, check out my blog and let me know what you think. http://newbusinessdirection.blogspot.com/ I want things to change, let me know if you agree with my direction or have any other philosophies.
Many business people strongly support Occupy. Why? They have been ripped of by the greedy banks, same as the rest of us.
Thank you, I agree, and that's part of why I started this blog.
I hate the way the media are labeling us "anti-Captalist". Of course this is not true. We are against greedy employees who are effectively anti-Capitalist themselves. They are thieving off their employers and the taxpayer.
Again I completely agree. I think some are anti-Capitalist, but I still believe the answer is keeping capitalism, and just having a consumer regulation, as i stated in my blog (linked in the original post). Its a solvable problem but we need to gait support that has a unified objective.
It is interesting how people are thinking in the same way. in Edinburgh here, a mediation service has already arranged meeting between the Occupy people and local people connected with business. We all have the same problems (the banks) and we are trying to arrive at a collection approach to solve these problems. It seems to be working OK.
That's a good start. Now if only we can start getting that done on a larger scale.
That is the secret of the Movement. Work from the bottom up. It means every place doing this sort of thing. If say around 500 Occupies did something, then it would certainly have an effect. It is not just about us though, It is about the 99%.
To exploit the 99%...Why is everybody in the movement in business? Business is the problem, not the solution. Learn to actually produce something. Keep your eyes on your own plate.
I would like to point out that we have a difference of opinion. I feel many businesses are not corrupt and are here to better the society. Looking at world and history, capitalistic countries tend to thrive. But the level of greed that many in the 1% (I stress not all of them are corrupt) is creating a oligarchy in disguise as a republic. The point of my structured movement I wrote about in my blog and hope to gain support in, is to abolish the chance of corruption as best as possible, through using the free-market system. It is the simplest, least intrusive, and quickest way to go about this as it does not interact with the government at all which is corrupted by the 1%. I really hope the Occupy Movement will begin to look past their single judgements and find common ground or else the movement won't work. I am simply trying to give an option that I believe is not just doable but the best option.
While I believe many businessmen are corrupt and many simply misguided, it's not exclusive to the top 1 %. Some of them are just better at it. We've been programmed to justify it. We look to the 1% to shift blame.
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Yet if you would only take a glance you'll find food spoiling on your own. All the while you're picking off an empty plate eyeballing the full one. Business profits on the backs of the people, period. 1% 25%, 50%, it makes no difference to those who pay.
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I do commend you for the words. I won't say I know any better nor that any of my actions demand more respect. I just remind myself as well as anybody who finds my dribble, that though there may be several degrees of separation, we're all looking to that empty plate. The degrees of separation are known collectively as business. When we buy local and we buy direct, money loses all it's importance as good faith, trust, and karma take hold. First business as we know it and those who prosper must end their struggle are we will all drown.
So what are you planning on doing about it?
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You're half right. Half caught up in the system.
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