The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
It seems we are in basic agreement on the problems that society faces. You rightly emphasize the coercive nature of income inequality. And, IMHO, you rightly emphasize the role that open-source, open-data, open-design, widening-commons, etc. must play in a better, functional society.
Please allow me to explain the strategy behind my project. In a nutshell, the strategy is to develop a parallel financial–economic–business-
William K. Black is a former Bank Regulator and expert on white collier crime especially control fraud you should.
According to Bill Moyers,
“The former Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention now teaches Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. During the savings and loan crisis, it was Black who accused then-house speakerJim Wright and five US Senators, including John Glenn and John McCain, of doing favors for the S&L's in exchange for contributions and other perks. The senators got off with a slap on the wrist, but so enraged was one of those bankers, Charles Keating — after whom the senate's so-called “Keating Five” were named — he sent a memo that read, in part, ‘get Black — kill him dead.' Metaphorically, of course. Of course.”[4]
He has been writing extensively chastising both the President and Attorney General Holder regarding their lack of attention to control fraud. His prolific output outlines chapter and verse for any diligent prosecutor.
Communities worldwide want economies that are stronger, greener, fairer, more resilient, more democratic, and more diverse. Jobs must be created, climate change addressed, infrastructure repaired, schools upgraded, and more. The LEDDA economic direct democracy framework, now under development, offers a bold yet practical solution.
The LEDDA framework provides greater organization to a local economy, one hard-wired for cooperation and steeped in democratic decision-making processes. A complete description is given in the book Economic Direct Democracy: A Framework to End Poverty and Maximize Well-Being.
Chesky argues that the ability to profit from sharing assets is a business model both resistant to recession and to the coming robot work-apocalypse.
Airbnb CEO spells out the end game for the sharing economy, in 7 quotes
Gregory Ferenstein
VentureBeat, 2 July 2014
Huh?
T-Mobile took ‘100s of millions of dollars' from bogus txt charges – Feds
Network CEO slams FTC, FCC allegations as baseless
>By Shaun Nichols
The Register, 1 Jul 2014
T-Mobile US was accused today of slapping bogus text-message charges worth hundreds of millions of dollars on customers' bills.
Airbnb does business in 34,000 cities, has a valuation of over 10 billion dollars, and in a very short time has disrupted the world of hospitality and travel. Its co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky envisions the future city as a place where sharing is front and center — where people become micro-entrepreneurs, the local mom and pops will flourish once again, where space isn't wasted, but shared, and more of almost everything is produced, except waste. But the journey from here to there won't be all smooth sailing. What are the ups and downs of the sharing economy, as businesses like Airbnb confront critiques about regulation, economic development, and fairness? What role might businesses play in creating more shareable, more livable cities? How will the sharing economy, with its de-emphasis on ownership, be a tool for addressing urban inequality?
Huh?
The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
By NICK HANAUER
Politico.com, July/August 2014
The model for us rich guys here should be Henry Ford, who realized that all his autoworkers in Michigan weren’t only cheap labor to be exploited; they were consumers, too. Ford figured that if he raised their wages, to a then-exorbitant $5 a day, they’d be able to afford his Model Ts.
What a great idea. My suggestion to you is: Let’s do it all over again. We’ve got to try something. These idiotic trickle-down policies are destroying my customer base. And yours too.
