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Originally Posted by InterfaceLeader  I was thinking about this article today, and I think there's a flip-side to it.
We all have to support individuals and small business, those that are providing value. If we get the cheaper, but crappier car, we are actually making it harder for those who do make good cars. If we buy the plastic packed 'turkey-ham' sandwich from the chain supermarket, we're making it harder for the local farmers market to thrive.
I believe Paul is right, and there are people who can get passionate and excited about any job, including picking up garbage and handling sewage, but they have to be supported and most people are to used to supporting the 'easiest option' which is letting large multinational corporations take care of it. And those corporations employ thousands of faceless desperate employees.
Working a production line is not satisfying; creating something from the ground up is. Cooking is wonderful, and many people love it, working in a sausage factory is soul-destroying. By passing your money (which is a 'vote' for the value of the product/service you are buying) to corporations, you are justifying these faceless workers, the huge garbage heaps, the massive impersonal corporate system.
By passing your money to small business, local traders, independent freelancers and people who are truly passionate about what they do, you 'vote' for the things that we say we value.
Or - it's not enough just to go independent and self-employed yourself. You have to help others to escape the job-prison too. |
This thread was full of such wonderful insight!
I love InterfaceLeader's point and I really think that message needs to be driven home in people's minds!
Support those services you use witha giving heart! Don't let the resource of money always "stop" at you... let it flow through you.
Being cheap is not helpful to anyone, especially yourself because what you give you get back tenfold. Who wants a life of cheapness??
