#commercialization and globalization and morality in a modern interconnected world

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Hi we just watched Good Omens 2 (amazing by the way. the religious trauma of it all. also spoilers to follow) but as we were speculating about season 3 a friend pointed out something I'd never noticed before and haven't seen people talking about elsewhere -- namely that we haven't yet seen... people... in Heaven. Hell is so swamped with people that they are "chronically understaffed," they have new arrivals every day and devote huge resources to processing them. But everyone we've seen in Heaven so far has been an angel of some sort (or so I think, my memory of s1 might be foggy). The two aesthetics are cool as hell but they also carry information: Hell is much more populous than Heaven, with all the bureaucracy that comes with that and managing their own people. Heaven is pointedly and horrifically empty (though granted that could also be that we only see the Angel bureaucracy location, and the point they're making is that in Heaven the Principalities are kept separate from the former mortals for some reason.)

This is of course rampant speculation, but it does make me wonder if what Aziraphale will find as the new Head Archangel is that... nobody goes to heaven. Namely that the rules are so strict even "good" people get sent down on a technicality. I feel like finding out he's been selling people on Earth a practical lie about doing good so they can go to Heaven would manage to break his faith in the system and set him towards reform (this is partially bcs I think the arc of the show is tending towards radical political action as a central theme: Aziraphale is still trying to get the "right people" to fix a broken system, Crowley understands the system sucks but doesn't have the sense of duty to want to release everyone else from it, only himself and the guy he cares about. I feel like together they'd be able to enact real political change. Also why I think God is being set up as the main villain- to avoid the "right people" excuse and blaming it on the angels.)

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Mason Soiza | The Prospective of the Third Generation of Technology Entrepreneurs

An Excerpt from the book Zero to One Million: Just How to Build a Business to One Million Dollars in Sales

  Given that the beginning of the modern technology age there have actually been 3 generations of business owners. The first generation contained individuals like Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, EDS billionaire Ross Perot, as well as indeed, even Bill Gates, currently over 50. These individuals "obtained it" back then before the Web. They were the "change entrepreneurs" and also were integral in bringing the United States into the Info Age.

  Next off on the scene were the guys and girls that grew up with Commodore 64s, Atari, and Ronald Reagan. From this very first type of Internet Age entrepreneurs came individuals like Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo!, Pierre Omidyar of eBay, as well as Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com. All born essentially in the late sixties, these people matured seeing the growth of computer systems and also were prepared to jump on the opportunity they saw in late 1994. They did well, as well as their firms tripled and also quadrupled annually from 1995-1999. These guys were the frontrunners as well as were smart enough to see the possibility of the Web twelve or thirteen years earlier, maybe the reason why all 3 of these companies are still around today.

  There is a new type of entrepreneurs that is currently beginning to make their mark on our globe. I are among them. We are the eighties generation. We are as the songs group COVERING states, "The Young people of the Country." While yes, there are a number of us that are frustrated, unconcerned, or depressed; I am seeing today something really outstanding. There is a subculture of youth in both the United States and in every country worldwide that gets it.

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I am really fortunate to have calls in concerning forty nations. In 2000, I was lucky enough to receive a scholarship to take place a 53-day expedition to Spain, Florida, New Mexico, and also Mexico called La Ruta Quetzal. On this journey I met 3 hundred fifty students from forty-three different countries. It has genuinely been valuable to be able to have these get in touches with. For example, during the Argentinean economic collapse in very early 2002 I was able to get on my computer system and e-mail Ana from Buenos Aires to see what the genuine circumstance was like. When an U.S. spy-plane was obliterated in China in April 2001, I was able to email my buddy Sonsoles in Beijing to get her take on the occurrence and her thoughts on what Jiang Zemin would certainly do.

  During the World Mug in June of 2002 I had the ability to talk live with my good friend Kevin in Dublin as he grieved over each missed penalty shot in Ireland's overtime elimination defeat to Spain. For the pre-1980 individuals checking out, would it not have astonished you when you were seventeen to have had the ability to conversation live from Florida with your friend in Dublin while both enjoying the exact same fine shot being taken at the precise very same time in Seoul, South Korea?

  This brand-new breed of business owners, even if we all do not yet totally understand the influence of globalization as well as exactly how vital the modifications that are happening today absolutely are, are either going through university now or will certainly in the following 5 years. The case studies they will certainly have in Financial Monitoring 202 will certainly not be the basic mathematical bores they maybe were for lots of in their university days of old. They will be fascinating tales of unrestricted wide range, power, and innovation; in some cases collapse and also fraud as well as in others amazing success.

  I said a couple of paragraphs ago "there is a subculture of young people in both the United States and in every nation on the planet that obtains it." But what it is that we get? We recognize the adhering to eleven principles:

  1. The globe is worldwide and interconnected. A negative financial record from one country can wreck the economic climate of a continent overnight, a trillion dollars can leave a nation with the click of a few computer mice, and also an explosion in Shanghai can cause bond rates in London to jump 10% within a hr.

  2. Anybody with $1000 and some intelligence can either make a billion bucks or destroy the globe.

  3. In our financial prosperity, we have to make every effort towards producing a sustainable existence otherwise the end of our lives as well as our youngsters's lives will be years of difficulty as well as sacrifice.

  4. Academic education and learning is necessary, but in all but the most effective colleges, an academic education will certainly not give one the expertise required to be financially prosperous. As Thomas J. Stanley specifies in The Millionaire Mind, having a 1000 or 1500 on your SATs has no connection to your most likely total assets in twenty years. Equally as vital, otherwise more, is one's education and learning and finding out outside the class.

  5. If one is going to end up being astonishingly affluent they much better have honesty, ethics, and maintain their accounting genuine and also precise.

  6. The world is mosting likely to alter in significant methods over our life time.

  7. Competitive market economic situations are necessary to a high standard of life. An incentive system is needed to get employees to function and a price system is essential to properly allot a restricted supply of resources and also goods. Competitors is necessary to maintain everyone sincere and also functioning effectively to produce the optimum outcome with the minimum input. Although some think industrialism creates injustices and also is immoral, it is a few of the individuals within this system that cause these unjust inequities. This lack of integrity amongst some participants will always exist. Nevertheless, as a result of smart laws, policies, oversight and also the intrinsic favorable residential or commercial properties of the marketplace paired with freedom such as openness, liberty of the press, and a better enlightened proletariat this honest problem is better currently than in the days of central ownership of resources as well as dictatorships. Given that there is no reward to gain a profit or introduce, state-owned business usually breed inefficiency.

  8. Nonetheless, without straightforward, moral, as well as caring people at the helm of an autonomous and also market system, or the correct legislations and lawful institutions to guarantee this integrity, this system is no far better than totalitarianism, autarky, or anarchy. Better, we need to constantly take concept number 3 right into account.

  9. For success to infect developing countries we should not look to brief run elixirs. It took 175 years to turn the UNITED STATE into a financial superpower. The exact same modification can not take place in Somalia, Zimbabwe, or Afghanistan without the appropriate development of human funding, industrial capital, and also a fundamental legal framework.

  10. It is not he who functions the hardest that is successful; it is he who has the most effective suggestions, works with the most knowledge, and also develops the best team to aid him complete his objectives.

  11. The ability to adapt to change and ability to discover quickly is as vital as what you recognize right now.

  Those that do not realize these concepts will have a difficult time becoming successful or constructing a flourishing company. While the large majority of American young people do not (at least yet) have the faintest idea of what these concepts are or what they suggest, there is an expanding minority that does. While development is being made with the help of companies such as Junior Accomplishment, the public additional academic system of the USA, in several areas, at times appears that rather than educating the above concepts it is showing pupils to be provincial, closed-minded, economically-challenged, and financially inept. It virtually appears if trainees in the American education and learning system are instructed from 1 st via 12 th grade to think that the U.S. is the only nation worldwide, the only one that matters, which our goal after we leave college must be to look for a protected well-paying work. These ideas will certainly not create the vibrant trendsetters as well as leaders needed to tackle the troubles of this brand-new century.

  Nonetheless, there is a growing minority of youth in the U.S. that does comprehend the globe, globalization, a little bit of background, as well as the basic concepts of business and business economics. Extra importantly, the eighties generation throughout a lot of the remainder of the globe is not so rural. On my 2000 Ruta Quetzal Exploration I was humiliated to only know two languages. Most of the participants, all simply fifteen as well as sixteen like I, knew at least 4 languages, and also some called lots of as 6. They not only recognized the languages, however they recognized the culture of whomever they were talking with, whether they were Japanese, Swedish, Colombian, American, or Malaysian. The world is growing smaller sized day by day, as well as anybody who does not recognize world culture, talk an additional language, or grasp globalization will have a glass ceiling in their career, in their life, and in their organisation.

  There has been some wonderful progress on this front recently. Publications such as The World is Apartment and The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman, The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin as well as Joseph Stanislaw, Rich Dad's Guide to Investing by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Globalization and also Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz, and Transforming the Exposition by John McMillan enlighten us all.

  This new breed of entrepreneurs did not grow up with 15% inflation, the Commodore 64, or Ronald Reagan (although I did love to play my Space Invaders video game on my used Atari when extremely young). Instead, we have grown up with Nintendo and Sega Genesis, MTV, Bill Clinton, the World Trade Facility strike, as well as most notably, the Internet.

  I was eleven, not twelve as well as not thirteen, however eleven. It was 1995 and also I was helping individuals that were 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and also 90 find out to utilize their computer, send out e-mails, browse the web, as well as create a letter without a typewriter. More frequently it is the 4 year old that is teaching her daddy exactly how to attach an image to an e-mail, or the 7 year old showing his uncle how to shed a CD, than the various other method round.

  Now I am 21. Anybody my age or more youthful will certainly understand what I will state. I do not understand what the globe resembled before the Internet. Allow me duplicate this-- I do not understand what the globe resembled prior to the Web. Yes, yes, certainly I have memories prior to 1994, yet to be sincere I truly didn't understand exactly how the world functioned back then. I did not review the paper too often then and also just rarely enjoyed Tom Brokaw or Dan Rather. I have actually matured to know routers, Intranets, FTP accessibility codes, HTML, as well as ecommerce.

  This new type of business owners; the financial investment bankers, analysts, economic experts, options investors, political leaders, company owner, leaders, as well as entrepreneurs of 2005-2065, recognize innovation as well as they utilize it every hr of their waking lives.

  We comprehend the above eleven concepts. We know we live in a worldwide interconnected village. We understand the government will likely not be able to deal with us in seniority. We know we need to be accountable for our education and learning and our monetary well-being. We understand that there is severe suffering, sacrifice, and also corruption in several parts of this globe that will certainly not stop unless we find a solution for it. We understand modern technology and comprehend the modifications that have occurred in organisation as well as the business as well as economic lessons that have been instructed to us over the past five years. In order to develop an effective service you will require to understand these things.

  This new breed will not be a normal, normal team. As long as we can avoid collapse in the center East and Southern Asia, a third world battle, as well as safeguard the informed world from the damaging strategies of those whose objectives might be well-meaning but whose ideas are based upon half-truths as well as fatality, the globe is our oyster. That is to state that my generation can not develop a much more effective way at making sure essential nutrients and also sufficient food gets to those in need? That is to state that we can not double the standard of life in my lifetime or consign absolute destitution in creating nations to the dustbin of history?

This brand-new generation is already doing exceptional things. Just review this passage from the Might 29, 2002 concern of Company Week:

  Never ever before have teens had the expertise, the gain access to, and the tools at their disposal to seek service on an equivalent footing with adults. The variety of teens doing some sort of business on the Web is currently a great deal bigger than many grown-ups would certainly ever anticipate. For each teen millionaire, there is a veritable swarm of regular children who routinely make spending money doing software work by means of the Web. It's impossible to determine exact numbers, but they are big. Scientist Computer System Economics Inc. in Carlsbad, Calif., estimates that 8% of all teens, regarding 1.6 million in the U.S., are making at least some money on the Internet. "There's not a period in history where we've seen such a huge selection of young business owners," says Nancy F. Koehn, associate professor of organisation administration at Harvard Business School.

  The post goes on to discuss teen entrepreneurs that have actually made thousands of thousands or countless bucks over the past six years by developing prominent website, establishing software application, and speaking with for companies. Directly, in my own work with the Carolina Entrepreneurship Club and the Collegiate Business Owners Organization I have entered call with numerous fellow young entrepreneurs. It appears to me that lots of in our generation definitely do understand the wonderful chance we have and the special time we are in. Regardless of what your age is, if you can discover these very same principles we have actually discovered, you will significantly raise your opportunities at constructing a successful service.

  In the coming years, brand-new leaders will appear who have actually matured with innovation being a part of their lives for as long as they can bear in mind. This brand-new generation will fundamentally recognize the principles of a global globe and be a lot more reliable in developing successful business than anybody who does not. Whether you are in this generation, you better understand these principles.

  In 2005, I was called as one of the "Top 25 Business owners Under 25" by Company Week. Every one of these entrepreneurs was birthed in the 80s as well as is part of this Third Generation of Tech Entrepreneurs. I hope you'll learn more about us. We'll be around for rather some time as well as we'll have an unmatched chance to influence positive modification in our globe and culture for the following 6 decades through both standard as well as social entrepreneurship. I think I know us all right to be positive we'll not allow the possibility pass us by