Spending. It’s been on people’s minds as a near civic duty. An economy that is allegedly driven by spending has to somehow spend its way out of the Recession of 2009. We’ve got a duty to redo our kitchens so we can employ people.
Right.
Not happening. Despite the efforts of everyone to rush to prop up mediocrities, there’s only one thing that can get us out of the Great Recession.
Value to others. Service to others. Help for others. Effort. Stuff people want, stuff people need, delivered with innovation, with style and with passion. No mere ‘job,’ can do this. A ‘job’ is an entitlement. A ‘job’s’ program creates the same consumerist entitlementalty that put us here.
What we need to do is get people to work. There’s a difference: I have no job, but I work. I work my ass off, regularly. I saw what I wanted to do, learned it, and I’m doing it. Get it? I am getting better every damn day–very soon I’ll be very very good. But there’s no future if you subject your fate and the fate of the family to working for others. The only way you deliver value if you work your ass off and serve people at the highest level.
You Can Have A Job and STILL Be Moving The Economy.
When you do that, it doesn’t matter if you’re working from home, from a cube farm, or from an office you started. You will get ahead. You will win. You will succeed. You increase the amount you know, increase your skills, and the value of your output.
We all do that, we all mean it, and boom, new golden age. We focus inward on what “we deserve,” and we’re back to where we started from, back to november of 2006 and the screeching halt that is our economy.
The Bust of 2006 Was Caused By The Entitled
Look, the bust was caused by people just wanting what’s in it for them: cushy jobs, big old SUVs and all you can eat buffets. The bust was caused by people “deserving” work, by people not hustling, thinking, or looking at what they did, and noticing there was a ‘value gap,’ between what they were paid and the value that they shot out.
The bust was caused by EVERYONE looking for the next teat to suck, addicted to growth and relative ease.
It was accelerated by the government’s creation of freddie and fannie, and all of that, but make no mistake: it was caused by greed everywhere. But, the good news is, that it’s possible to out-hustle the hole we dug for ourselves.
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Amen! We went through the recession in California during the late 80s. We got through it with hard work and were better for it. To this day, the struggles of that recession have dictated the way we do business.