Perhaps Sean should be the point man and anyone interested should write him off-list; we start a mailing list, start discussing this, then use social media to go out there and do this thing. Sign me up. On Apr 30, 2012, at 8:00 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
> I have been suggesting this for the last 10 years or so and it seems that no > one wants to talk about it. there are also the excuses that it is someone > elses problem, they are too broke, etc. I have suggested having a number of > people invest in a firm, assign a voting proxy and force the issue at the > stockholder's meetings. so far, all I get is a room full of crickets. 10 > years harping the same message and no one seems to bother. > > an accessibility tax would also work (think of it like the RIAA tax on audio > tapes all those years ago). unfortunately, you mention taxes to the general > public, even when said tax is in their own best interest and you will have > such an outcry that the matter will get dropped like a red hot potato. that > is the state of affairs that we are under these days. > > perhaps we need to form a core group and lead by example. > > -eric > > On Apr 30, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Paul Hunt wrote: > >> Hello Sean. This is a great idea and I would be interested in discussing it >> further. I had thought that we could impose an accessibility tax to be >> levied on everyone who buys a piece of electronic equipment. The money could >> be put into a fund and grants be given to companies that agree to develop >> accessible stuff to defray their R&D costs. Your idea is much more proactive. >> I just wonder how to make this happen?On Apr 30, 2012, at 5:05 AM, Sean >> Murphy wrote: >> >>> All. >>> >>> I would raise a different slant on the whole discussion. No one took this >>> up before in one of my prior posts. This is a concept and please treat it >>> as an idea. If people want to discuss this off line to see if it could be >>> actually adopted. Then please let me know. I am more then happy to discuss. >>> >>> >>> A we all know Business only cares about the bottom line. Since this is the >>> situation. A solution to our problems is to become investors. So how can we >>> as a group become investors? Being individual investor will not have the >>> same impact as if we do it as a group. Let me put up some figures. >>> >>> If 10 million people in the USA put $10.00 into a investment fund per >>> month. This would give the group $100000000.00 per month or 1.2 billion a >>> year. If you extend this to a international level and got another 20 >>> million people. Then the yearly amount grows to 3.6 billion dollars a year. >>> Having this type of yearly funds for investing into companies. Their >>> attitudes towards accessibility or what I would prefer to say Universal >>> design will quickly change. Since this type of money could place the fund >>> managers who ever they are on boards of companies due to amount of shares >>> held by the investment fund. >>> >>> Basically what I have outlined is a different approach of changing peoples >>> attitude by playing the same game. I believe there is at least 10 million >>> or more people world wide that could afford $10.00 per month. Of course >>> there are those who cannot. But they would benefit anyway. Before you shoot >>> the idea down. Stop and think about if we had as a community this type of >>> money. What changes could be done. The fund could be open to anyone who >>> wants to help. It could even be open to all disabilities. That makes the >>> numbers bigger and making the pool of investment larger. Investing into >>> proactive companies like Apple would ensure they continue doing there good >>> job. Informing companies like publishers that we will invest x million per >>> month over the next x months if I believe would quickly change their >>> attitude. >>> >>> So take off the blinkers everyone and see what this idea could do to change >>> the world of technology? >>> >>> Ideas or comments are more then welcomed. >>> >>> >>> Sean >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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