Ernie: How to make this work.........
What kind of business is virtually guaranteed to make a lot of money? How about a garage, that is, an auto shop? It would -necessarily- be labor intensive, and it would be valuable to a lot of people -everyone who owns a car. Hence a full service auto shop business, everything from lube jobs to body work. At a good price, with discounts for "tribe" members. In order not to destroy Good Will in the larger (general) community start by buying an existing auto shop business. Then expand greatly with new capital such that the shop is really nice, appealing to women customers as well as your more 'nuts and bolts' male patrons. If this works well, maybe use this as a model for other "tribes." Hell, it just might become a new "Walmart." There is plenty of money to be made -and made forever. Next question is tribe formation. Some kinds of tribes would be natural enough, like people who share an ethnic background, like all the Ukrainians in a town, or all the Viet Namese. But there is a problem with that, intermarriage; in time, in America, there are fewer and fewer "pure" anything groups. There can be occupation tribes, like all the artists in a city, but usually they do not all live in the same neighborhood. Retirement communities are ideal in some ways, there certainly are many common interests. But much beyond 80 and there is no telling what will happen medically and that introduces a lot of uncertainty -which is undesirable. And older people are seldom focused on the future and most simply want to live out their years in security and whatever comfort they can get. The goal must be to find something that unifies a group of people such that they would WANT others like them in some basic way to also succeed in life. Which is one strength of Indian tribes, everyone wants all the other Umpquas to do well, or all the other Siletzes. So, you need something that will make everyone members of a real world "tribe" of some kind. You need to be able to say, "I really want all the others in my tribe to do well in life, not just me and my family." What would it take for that to happen? But it is also essential to be able to depend on a business that is money making year after year after year. This cannot be a gamble, it has to be secure. With that, THEN start ups of all kinds can be funded and some, with any luck, will be successful and contribute not only to the tribe but to individuals and their families. Religion is one possibility but that also presents problems. Still, think of the Amish, who, corporately, are quite successful. Culture is another, which is why I suggested artists, all of whom (in theory anyway) want all the other artists to be successful. Their success creates critical mass for an art market and that would mean my art also. And there are a few art colonies here and there which might make a go of something like this. But, while there are about 5 million artists in the USA, they are only infrequently concentrated enough to constitute the kind of community envisioned here. But these problems ought to be soluble. Billy -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
