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CHANGE FOR THE BETTER
CHANGE FOR THE BETTER
Simply put, a national economic model will not yield many benefits for the vast majority of people until worker cooperatives own and manage at least half of the nation’s enterprises. Our current national economic model has failed the vast majority of Americans and has benefited mostly the super-rich and their political junkies. We need a different economic model.
Rather than trying to take over bankrupt enterprises as the workers did in Argentina (Sin Patron by www.lavaca.org; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvJrCSVTPOo ), we can raise the start-up and grow-up capital among the workers by asking them to invest small amounts each payday in one or more worker cooperatives. The model for this approach is Mondragon Cooperative Corporation. The mechanism will be direct purchase of equity interests and debt obligations through a KIVA-like link, to be known as the Social Benefit Investment Exchange (SBIE).
SBIE is now in the concept stage and is beginning to take shape. The initial resource is the software and IT formulation. The “front room” or CRM will be based on www.thebrain.com or Personal Brain (PB) as they label it. This system is a virtual socio-gram for navigation and for ordering information. The “back room” will be a non-traditional database based on www.asksam.com. We have RFPies out to both companies. The build for SBIE PB 1.0 is in progress. If you want to participate, you will need to download and install Personal Brain 5 .. found at: http://www.thebrain.com/#-53 Then please email me and I will return the then current edition of build SBIE PB 1.0 so you can edit and add to the project. As soon as The Brain has a stable online version, we will migrate to the hosted version and then we will have direct access to our SBIE formulation of PB for our front room.
I am thrilled to have found the mind-mapping software offered by The Brain. They have many tutorials and a forum which really works. I’m very impressed. While the learning curve is a bit steep at first, once you get the hang of it, it seems very simple to understand and use. I spent a day researching mind-mapping software and The Brain is clearly the best of its class.
SBIE will need a database to organize and provide security for the ownership, identity and transaction data. We have chosen AskSam to design this “back room”. We need to move away from Windows and onto a Linux platform, running an Apache DB server loaded with the AskSAM and PB software. The jury is still out whether to use AskSAM, but it appears to be the best choice, all things considered.
There are some guidelines, namely a collaborative approach to the design of the SBIE. Great minds can run in many directions. We want to engage great minds. The schema is also direct interaction of investors and investees. We do not need a host of middlefolk claiming control and pulling out commissions.
Your help is need and will be greatly appreciated.
Jim Miller
jimmiller5417@yahoo.com
- Hope is stirring. Grab a paddle and help stir.
- By Jim Miller
Simply put, a national economic model will not yield many benefits for the vast majority of people until worker cooperatives own and manage at least half of the nation’s enterprises. Our current national economic model has failed the vast majority of Americans and has benefited mostly the super-rich and their political junkies. We need a different economic model.
Rather than trying to take over bankrupt enterprises as the workers did in Argentina (Sin Patron by www.lavaca.org; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvJrCSVTPOo ), we can raise the start-up and grow-up capital among the workers by asking them to invest small amounts each payday in one or more worker cooperatives. The model for this approach is Mondragon Cooperative Corporation. The mechanism will be direct purchase of equity interests and debt obligations through a KIVA-like link, to be known as the Social Benefit Investment Exchange (SBIE).
SBIE is now in the concept stage and is beginning to take shape. The initial resource is the software and IT formulation. The “front room” or CRM will be based on www.thebrain.com or Personal Brain (PB) as they label it. This system is a virtual socio-gram for navigation and for ordering information. The “back room” will be a non-traditional database based on www.asksam.com. We have RFPies out to both companies. The build for SBIE PB 1.0 is in progress. If you want to participate, you will need to download and install Personal Brain 5 .. found at: http://www.thebrain.com/#-53 Then please email me and I will return the then current edition of build SBIE PB 1.0 so you can edit and add to the project. As soon as The Brain has a stable online version, we will migrate to the hosted version and then we will have direct access to our SBIE formulation of PB for our front room.
I am thrilled to have found the mind-mapping software offered by The Brain. They have many tutorials and a forum which really works. I’m very impressed. While the learning curve is a bit steep at first, once you get the hang of it, it seems very simple to understand and use. I spent a day researching mind-mapping software and The Brain is clearly the best of its class.
SBIE will need a database to organize and provide security for the ownership, identity and transaction data. We have chosen AskSam to design this “back room”. We need to move away from Windows and onto a Linux platform, running an Apache DB server loaded with the AskSAM and PB software. The jury is still out whether to use AskSAM, but it appears to be the best choice, all things considered.
There are some guidelines, namely a collaborative approach to the design of the SBIE. Great minds can run in many directions. We want to engage great minds. The schema is also direct interaction of investors and investees. We do not need a host of middlefolk claiming control and pulling out commissions.
Your help is need and will be greatly appreciated.
Jim Miller
jimmiller5417@yahoo.com
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