While many groups in
society, seek to understand, study to fix and aim to win, life’s issues, people
must traverse and prevail. Grouped by age; under or over 40 years old,
education; below or above tertiary level, income; under or over average for
this geography and wealth; below or above middle class. We ask a group of
Entrepreneurs (Risk-Takers) and a group of career workers. How do you manage
life’s issues? In the hope that answers, would develop positive and progressive
strategies, which can be immediately implemented and grow the economy.
How do you deal with
Crime? “I create jobs in my community, but I worry about the employees, who
live elsewhere.” “By volunteering time to educate and feed others.” Crime is
proven to be rooted in a poor public education system, which creates
desperation and abject poverty. Therefore, many job creating Entrepreneurs and active
Volunteers are needed. In other words, what is needed, is a programme that
offers, training, mentoring, incubating and supporting, of such risk-takers, to
develop ideas into industries, access new markets and spread, direct or
indirect employment opportunities, throughout the territory. While, linking
such jobs to volunteerism, to teach and reduce levels of poverty.
How do you handle
the Wealth Gap? “By trying to increase earnings and taxes across the board.” “By
buying assets instead of just consuming.” The wealth gap is the unequal distribution of assets; homes,
automobiles, personal valuables, savings, and investments, among the population,
which reacts along with changes in economic activities. Therefore, what is
needed, are products with high value-added inputs and soft loans to purchase
assets. Affordable housing units should be made available to low earners
through low interest mortgages. This requires subsidies paid by Taxes, which is
generated from products’ earnings. Hence, the more value added, and the more products
sold, the more earnings and the more tax collected, the softer the mortgage
payments.
How do you cope with
Unemployment? “By inventing new and innovating better product lines.” “By saving
and investing money and planning my own business.” Lucrative employment is
created by savings and investments from the wealthy and/or the collective
taxpayers (the Government) and found through individual education and
experience. Therefore, it again falls to many job creating Entrepreneurs;
Inventors, Innovators, and Independent Investors. Industrialist – An Individual or team that searches to combine proven
inventions and innovations with high risk investment funding and is focused on
setting up a new or improving a traditional industry or sector. Instigator – A person or group of persons that uses an original idea or
intellectual property and skillfully masterminds it into a strategic business
plan combining inventions and innovations with high risk investment funding and
expert management techniques.
People, on a daily
basis, have to maneuver in and around aging, damaged, and poorly maintained infrastructure;
broken-down roads and bridges, faulty communication networks, defective water
works, unreliable electricity supply, to simply accomplish routine tasks. Such
contracts, awarded by Government to expedite works and reduce cost, maybe in
the form of Private Public Partnerships.
Business Light seeks public
opinions, and gives a voice to the voiceless, to question and understand, to
address and oppose, and to improve their lives. Remembering that, society is
made up of many groups of individuals with differing points of view. Such
solutions may well come from the bottom up and can be measured by a Happiness Index.
Rationale
T.A.J & Associates Company Limited
uses this occasion to comment on topics that have been covered, both academically
and by the mainstream media, to add its opinion and point out investment
opportunity, not to invoke any social action.
