The tradition
The traditional way of making money is waning
fast. We have seen automation
replacing the manual human labour in the
workplace such as factories, farms,
clothing and textile industries and many other
areas since the late 18th
century. The most basic of manual labours by
human effort such as the
traditional farmer with a machete, hoe and fork
used on the farm for clearing,
preparing and ploughing the land has long been
replaced by machines that gets
more done in a shorter time thus increasing
output and profit margins.
At the turn of the 19th century, when companies
sought ways to maximize
the output of their factories, getting to
running them 24/7 was key. To make
things more efficient, people had to work
longer periods. In fact, 10-16 hour
days were the norm. These incredibly long work
days weren’t sustainable and so
a genius named Robert Owen began a serious
campaign to have people work
no more than 8 hours per day. Business owners
had a hard time digesting these
changes and thought that this move would see
them losing rather than gaining.
The age old 9-5
Now the brilliant idea of instituting the
regular 9-5, eight hour per day
40 hour work week was born and was scarcely
accepted until the Ford Motor
Company implemented it and saw their profit margins
soar to new heights.
Since then we have institutionalized the 9-5
method and have come to accept
it as the norm for the workforce of many
nations.
After all this time however, who benefits
mostly from this paradigm shift.
You guessed it, the business owners were able
to maximize on their output
and income but did the workers situation
improve. Well yes, they were working
under a more structured time system and their
output increased but did their
standard of living increase. Did their family
life relationships improve
in that they were able to devote more time to
their families well-being.
Devoting 40 years of your life to a 9-5 job for
a meagre pension and sub-
standard living as a golden ager has the
workforce trapped in a cycle of
meagre existence while the business owners and
their families to which
they have devoted their lives enjoys high
standards of living. There is
just no balance or equity in this arrangement.
In my opinion the benefits
should see a more equal distribution of the
gains realised across the board.
This is the traditional way of making money
that we have grown accustomed to.
The business owner comes up with the idea for
the supply of goods or services
but is unable to supply the quotas all on his
own so he has to hire. According
to the local labour laws, the time that the
worker devotes to his work and his
payment are gazetted by governments to secure
their benefits. The worker does not
own his job and therefore his salary is not
guaranteed.
Don’t get me wrong, I have the greatest respect
for business owners, myself being an
employer. There need to be a way to find a
balance between the devoted hours used
in production of goods and services by the
workers and the gains he realises for his
labours that can improve his standard of
living. Instead of traditionally towing the
line like his fore bearers he needs to make his
own money.
People need to find more creative ways to
upgrade themselves and improve their
earnings for a better life. In fact Governments
need to stop the exploitation
of their people and their natural resources,
Educate and empower them with the
needed tools for prosperity and enrichment.
There is an abundance of resources
on the planet to comfortably achieve equity
among all its’ citizens.
Earn your own money
traditional means and will not change the
status-quo. Individually though,
we need to shake off the dust of tradition,
uncertainty, doubt, fear and
begin to search for ways and means to EARN
OUR OWN MONEY. Look around your
community, there might be opportunities to
start a business. Be creative,
provide a needed service, invent, build or
construct simple machines
to make someone’s life easier and eventually
improve your situation.
This will take some time to implement and some
of us might not be able
to make that shift in an instant but if we must
change we need to stay where
we are and chart a different course for our own
benefits and improvement. We
need to in some areas educate ourselves to earn
more for to be promoted to
a higher level of employment in the traditional
sense. For others we might
be able to search and identify the possible
hundreds if not thousands of
opportunities in our community where we can improve the
lives of others.
When you freely give of yourself in the service
of others, you are setting yourself up
for recognition in the marketplace. Almost
everything including THE CREATION OF
MONEY was created or
born from just a mere thought. The thought then germinates
and takes on a process (gathers flesh). This is
where the thought becomes active and
starts to influence your behaviour whether it
be negative or positive thoughts and
start to demand of the
universe and its’ surroundings the means by which to
start shaping that thought into something
tangible.
Business Opportunities
Believe it or not, most big businesses started
out as home based or cottage industries
then develop into full blown entities over
time. Some of these are listed below and
they may hold the keys to start the improvement
of your life if researched planned
and carefully implemented.
Bottling
and marketing fresh juices
Bottling
Fruit preserves
Bottling
Spices preserves
Baked
products
Condiments
Chips
and small packet snacks
Catering
Lunch
deliveries
T
shirt printing
Light
garment manufacturing
Car
wash
Small
appliance repairs
Baby
sitting
Pet
grooming
Invention
of simple machines
Grocery
shop
Convenience
shop
More Business Opportunities
There are countless job and employment
opportunities on the internet in recent
times. You
can even earn a degree online and stay home while you do it. You can
Write
articles, on topics you have an expertise in and Create blogs, Take surveys
where large companies pay you to test their
product and pay you for your opinion.
Create
e-books, Write
short stories, Market affiliate products
both online and offline
on just about anything under the sun. There are
opportunities to Market your own
products
online too. The possibilities are endless so you
should easily be able to
find something that suits your interest and
expertise.
Billions of dollars exchange hands every single
day online. I stress the internet
because it is so much easier to provide a
service based on your expertise in a digital
format that can be downloaded by the recipient
in a flash. Physically tangible
products can be bought online repackaged and
shipped to others without you
having to warehouse them and tie down your
capital. Start making your own money
now. Forget
the alibi and meaningless excuses.
