Business Women

Society has defined roles for its males and females; base primarily on muscles and courage, empathy and creativity, but as mechanization and technology makes physical work easier, the roles have become an individual decision, with women successfully entering traditionally male dominated fields and being wage-earners, society is losing its caregivers. Many writers on this topic take a side as to the many disadvantages women faced and that men have become weak, this article however takes the view of a parent wanting the best from both sons and daughters. More importantly are these changing roles best for society, a growing economy and business activities?

Business Ideas

Business plays an important role in the development of society; by developing natural resources and human talents, markets and brands, by creating jobs and collecting and paying taxes into the local and national treasury. The treasury, in turn, funds the public budget for healthcare, education, security, infrastructure and other key social programs to benefit all inclusive of workers, managers and of course, the business.

Business Education

Most developing economies put very little emphasis on developing new industries or sectors, focusing instead on strengthening existing revenue streams. Business is the driver of economic expansion, investing funds, time and effort into opportunities for a calculated return. Yet, so call business educational program produces mostly managers and other specialists in management such as, accountants, HR, procurement, etc., conservative by nature. Risk is at the root of returns, and without risk-takers, an economy is at the mercy of current foreign and domestic market forces without the essential component, hope.

Financial Crimes

An uninformed and risk adverse public, in an expanding economy, is fertile ground for financial crimes. It is when the economy slows and expectations fail to materialize that the blame games cause financial runs and court matters.

The rules and regulations governing the financial sector must not only police the institutions and their products, but must educate and in fact, test the financial literacy of each and every investor or depositor via the products prospectus. Mandated by law and administered by an independent organization without any vested interest in promoting one product over another. Failure to achieve and demonstrate a minimum standard, as to how a particular instrument should work, must lead to the disqualification from participating in such products, hence protecting a vulnerable public and avoiding future bailouts or legal actions.

Minimum Wage

Educating the public, from a very young age, as to what is involved in a decent and acceptable standard of living, along with their collective and individual responsibilities to maintain, grow and develop their society. No one should be left behind; education must reach all, with meals and healthcare provided, and other social services to reach the most vulnerable. No one should be too far in front; taxing the richest ten percent of the population, will reduce immoral activities, and help finance social programs.

A standard of living that is firstly, made possible by marketable production, not just productivity for the sake of reducing unemployment statistics, generating revenue from the sale of goods and services that are financially viable to produce and is clearly in demand. A standard of living that is secondly, evenly divided geographically, across all preferred economic sectors and, more importantly, seen to be fairly distributed amount all in the society, building a majority of middle class citizens.

Public vs. Private

Governing is a difficult responsibility, especially with declining tax revenues and if the population does not understand the system, whether caused by gaps in the education curriculum or by errors in media pronouncements; rumors rather than facts fueling public opinions. The driving force in a free market economy is ideas; dreams that any citizen can become a leader, imagining that anyone can become a role model and thoughts that every employee can become an employer. Many in public service, an institution that runs on trepidation and nepotism, feel stuck with their ambitions shattered. Yet, these are the people that are empowered to implement policies and facilitate economic development and growth.

Defining Politics Clarification

Our most sincere apologies to all in the audience that have to exercise the mind, through the ranting of the document titled “Defining Politics”, some got it, others did not. These documents continue to be edited down to five hundred words, sometime removing large, complex and important sentences. The objective remains to reach and encourage a mass audience, of varying educational backgrounds, with an interest in understanding business and its surrounding issues. The publisher of these ideas has first rights, which means they edits and disseminates to all others, but the responsibility of the topics are solely ours.

Defining Politics

It is said, “Politics is about the distribution of power”. This maybe idealistic but in practice, is a necessary immorality and comfort for a fool. I believe that it is a control mechanism set out to divide the masses, using any means necessary so that the minority groupings with never have equal power, clearly discriminating against the individual and focusing to protect wealth. Many examples exist, in all types of political systems, to support this believe but it all comes down to the majority of wealth, to purchase influence.

No Politics Zone

Within the hallow chamber of the legislature, where laws are made giving effect to decisions of the executive, there must be no mention of political allegiance while debating issues that will affect the entire population. Party politics has it place and purpose, this having been done; brings on the serious work of building a society, which should be seen by all as an exchange of ideas to strengthen policies and programs, and to be above the attacks of party politics.

Wealthy Legacy

Wealth is more about power and influence than about being rich or having money. A popular joke says; a rich person gets paid a lot of money but a wealthy person signs that pay check. This implies that commitment, training, opportunity and sound financial management can and will make you rich. The joke also implies that one person can be wealthy. The truth however, is that all economic systems, presently in existence, rely on controlling the masses, by fear or by favor. That horrid knock on the door in the middle of the night, seizing all things of value, simply because you visibly have more than others, in some systems is not a crime.