The New
Economy - Making a Living in the New World
by: Perry Jones
A million jobs
and more are being lost each year overseas. Thousands of people
each month are giving up hope of ever finding a job. This is
a huge tragedy the effects of which have not yet even begun.
A million jobs
lost are a million people out of work. It's a million people
depending on an unemployment check to pay bills and feed their
families. A million people out of work is a million children
whose parents wonder how they are going to feed their children.
A million jobs lost.
That's a lot of
people wondering what to do next. That's a lot of people wondering
if their next job is going to pay as well as their last job.
A million jobs lost is a million people bewildered.
We are faced with
a great challenge. But the challenge we face in lost jobs is
the opposite viewpoint of what is really happening. No matter
how politicians may rant about their opponents causing millions
of jobs to go overseas, no matter how politicians may promise
they will stem the outflow of jobs to Mexico, China and India,
no matter how many promises are made; the outflow of jobs cannot
be stopped. Nor should it be.
Jobs are flowing
toward those areas where the economics prove the most effective
for that job keeping the cost of goods and services affordable
for the most people. Productivity gains in the areas of job
loss keeps inflation from rising. But these things are meaningless
if you're the one who has lost your job.
A great restructuring
is upon us. It is painful and it is arduous. It is challenging.
But it is also necessary. For those whose jobs have been lost
things could hardly get any worse. But the loss of jobs is a
good thing. The loss of jobs to China and Vietnam, Mexico and
Korea means the increase of opportunity where those jobs were
lost. It may not look like it if you're the one holding that
final paycheck and your heart begins to flutter in panic.
I know. I've been
there.
Instead of looking
at what we've lost, we must do the hard thing and look at the
opportunity that has been presented to us. With some support
from the government in the form of unemployment compensation,
tuition loans and vouchers for adults and medical, life, vision
and dental insurance for those thrown out of work, we can make
it.
With these necessities
provided, we can now set about ensuring that never again will
we be at the mercy of some corporation that doesn't really care
about us anyway. By starting over again at 30, 40 or even 50
at some big corporation, we'd only be the first to go at the
next economic downturn. There has to be a better way. And there
is.
It will be hardest
for adults. But I also know that as adults, we do whatever is
necessary to get by - to put food on the table for our children
and families, to keep a roof over their heads and clothes on
their backs. It will be hard. But it is doable. It is also necessary.
A new economy is
upon us. The means of production are being handed back to the
individual by the forces of evolution, science and progress.
No person is doing this. No state is doing this. No religion
is doing this. No ideology is doing this. Evolution, science
and progress alone are presenting each of us with the opportunity
to grab a hold of our own economic future and be totally self
responsible and totally self-sufficient.
As our basic necessities
for life and living are temporarily provided by the state, we
must go back to school to learn a trade, to learn that profession
we always wondered about. Our dream of being an architect, teacher
or doctor is now forced upon us. And we must take up those reins
which have been presented to us - and learn.
It may not be easy.
It may not be cheap. But it must be done. As we learn that trade
or profession we've always dreamed of, other avenues of generating
income wait to be explored.
The standard of
living for our future lies in how well we grasp the fundamentals
of financial education. We must look to people like Suze Orman,
Robert Allen and Robert Kiyosaki, for they represent the vanguard
of our economic future. The jobs we have lost will be replaced
by jobs we ourselves create.
Inventions, copyrights,
patents, licensing, acting, music publishing, trading in commodities,
rental income, income from websites we own, are all just a small
part of the great variety of streams of income we will enjoy
in the future. REIT's, gas and oil income trusts, share-the-wealth
and distributed ownership corporations are all just some of
the myriad income vehicles we will create and participate in
in the future.
Shared ownership
of corporate robots, distributed ownership in satellite networks,
traditional franchises, internet auctions, affiliate programs,
ebooks, software development, licensing a game, product, patent
or process are all just a small part of the universe of means
to provide us with an income which will eventually be many times
larger than any income we would have received had we stayed
in that job we lost.
A million jobs
a year are flowing overseas. Good riddance. Jobs are passé'.
The future is upon us. Financial freedom is upon us. The hope
and dream of many for decades is now at hand. We are being released
- kicking and screaming perhaps - but we are being released
nevertheless from the tyranny of work - from the daily 9 to
5.
It is a bold future
and requires that each of us be bold individually. We must set
our fears behind for the future is truly bolder, bigger, brighter
and better than any future we could have envisioned just a few
years ago.
It is a scary future.
For we will be cut off from familiar faces and familiar means
of employment at offices and factories and stores and warehouses
and the McDonald's and Wal-Mart's across the country.
And for now, what
those familiar faces and those familiar processes will be replaced
with we do not know. But it will be good. Because we are up
to the challenge, because we are bold, because we are strong,
because we are intelligent. It will be good because we are good.
It will be good because when tossed a challenge we always win.
I have no faith in big out-of-touch government or big out-of-touch
corporations. I have faith in the individual. I have faith in
you.
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Perry Jones is a successful
entrepreneur and work at home advocate. He has worked with Fortune
500 companies for many years and helped these companies generate
millions of dollars to their bottom line. You can obtain further
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