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Minimum Wage

The USA instituted a national minimum wage originally explicitly to protect white peoples jobs in the northern countries from the millions of unemployed black people in the South. The minimum wage continues to have the similar effects to this day.

Tweaks

Each little tweak you make to improve your life or business only makes a small difference at first. As the years go by, the little tweaks start to pile up into substantial change. Great achievements are rarely created instantly even if they appear that way.

Google was not built into a multi-billion dollar titan instantly. Larry Page had spent his childhood going to conferences and playing with computers and tech magazines with his dad who had a PhD in computer science.… read more “Tweaks”

Nicaragua

Nicaragua had a serious earthquake in the 60s. US officials, in an effort to help, sent an enormous quantity of wheat to feed the people. Sounds good, right? Unfortunately, earthquakes don’t damage wheat fields. Over the next two years, the farmers of Nicaragua saw their agriculture businesses destroyed.

Be careful when a politician says “let’s pass a regulation to fix…”.

Poverty and Business

I grew up in poverty. My dad was an assistant pastor of a small church in a poor area making marginal income and my mom stayed at home to raise four boys. My grandparents are wealthy and showed me flashes of a much better life, and fortunately scooped me out of a bad situation when my parents lives fell apart when I was 14.… read more “Poverty and Business”