Entrepreneurs Manifesto And Declaration of Rights
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Will you join by me in repeating our pledge? The entrepreneurs manifesto and declaration of rights pledging undying support for the worldwide spirit of the entrepreneur.
The world’s entrepreneur collectively are sitting on the edge of their business seats awaiting change which is a great place to be but feels uncomfortable. The small business landscape is going through a major changes and who knows how it will turn out? That’s the uncomfortable part especially when your risking your own money but dramatic change can be painful for the small business community but is a necessary part of long term healthy growth.
Actually letting the old growth fall away and allowing new growth replace it with stronger, more creative and innovative growth is the healthiest signs from a economy but we have become comfortable with rescues and bailouts, never letting the old grow die and the new to sprout from underneath. This may be the biggest problem in the world economy, an unwillingness to let failure happen.
I found this article, “The Entrepreneurs Manifesto & Declaration of Rights” by Doug Richards at School For Start Ups and thought other business people might find it interesting:
As a nation we fear that nothing has changed; that greedy bankers will continue to be rewarded for their failure, that amoral corporations will continue to put profits in front of people and the environment, and that the State, however bloated and costly, is not only unable to control the beast but must compete with other nations to be its servant at an unbearable cost to itself.
We have banks so large that they dwarf the very governments whose guarantees they rely upon for our trust. We have become hostage creditors to their uncoupled risk taking. And worse, as nations we are reduced to acting like market stall vendors shouting our best price louder than the adjoining shopkeeper hoping they will purchase just one more night. They are not just too big to fail. They are too big to even let leave.
The largest corporations pit our tax systems against each other. Their capital alights like a wind born leaf ready to whisp away on the slightest breeze of taxation. In the failure of a global commons their profits shoulder a fraction of the costs of the infrastructure and shared society whose foundations support them.
The environment has no voice, the consumer has no collective; thus the largest corporations are neither charged for their cost to the world nor rewarded for building products that endure.
Yet our State continues to grow. It has devoured every pound of taxation and growls for more. Our civil servants earn uncivil wages. When the economy grew, it outgrew the economy. Despite a decade that has seen more than a 40% increase in welfare spending (i), our rates of poverty and joblessness have continued to climb. One in four UK citizens live in poverty; nearly three million children do (ii). Over the last ten years our index of production has fallen more than 10%. In the last two years our index of services has fallen over 5% as well (iii). Our national debt is now 60% of our GDP (iv). We are demonstrably poorer as a nation. The system does not work.
But, the wealth of this nation, and of every nation rests on the shoulders of entrepreneurial activity. The innovators who open new markets, create new products, deliver new services and change the processes of business itself; by the very act of creation, destroy less efficient industries, create greater productivity and as a direct result create all new wealth.
The State is not our society. It is the largest servant of our society and to the degree it intends to deliver greater benefits and services to all of its citizen’s in equal measure the greater its moral obligation to ensure that it harnesses the power of the entrepreneur to constantly improve the delivery of its services. The size of the State, itself, is not the enemy. Thus focusing on its size will not lead us to a solution. “Societies that try to reap the gain of creative destruction without the pain find themselves enduring the pain but not the gain.”
Here’s where it gets really interesting and gets us to the entrepreneurs declaration of rights… click here to go the full article and pass it around. Maybe pass it to your local congressional representative since small business is the largest creator of jobs in our economy by a very large percentage but has no representation.
Stella says, government regulates in order to create a level playing which is understandable thus fostering innovation and competition.
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