I am just attempting to share what I have learned. There are many other ways to start a business, actually if all people want to do is each agree to do what they can towards a common goal, that might just do it. There would have to be a means to get paid for your efforts. That is if you are going to make money, which is the way this country works above ground. Underground all one has to do is get around the IRS.

About starting a business and getting money to do so. I have talked to investors. Money to invest is not a problem, there are many who have money to invest. The problem is the ideas behind the business and the people who are going to run it. A new idea with the thought behind it developed to make it work is the hard part. Most investors want a sizable chunk of the business and management capabilities to insure their money. There is a buyout option to get them out once the business is profitable. Location is not a problem anymore because of the internet. More later if interested.

I am getting really tired of this mindset. Judging someone by their looks is a waste. A waste of talent, reason, resources, and if one really wants to go their profit. I cannot believe that our society has not figured out that everyone has something they can teach, something they can contribute that will aid the society to further develop into something that works for everyone. This society, I do not know what else to call it, works only for the rich. It takes a lot of effort and luck to get anywhere. This is what you are referring to. If everyone was able to contribute to the best of their ability, rather than to what works for a company that already has an agenda and only facilitates to that agenda, waste is generated. People do not know what to do as the goals of the nation do not match what would make more prosper. I have always thought that a room full of unemployed people would have the mental resources to create a business, but since there is usually not a person who is willing to take the risk, nothing happens. We all look for someone to help us out, we do not have access to others that could come together to make a great resource for others. The resources earth of us now have far exceeds all before us. The advertisement Common did during the Olympics tells it all. Hope I am making sense.

Is Mary Beard known at all over your side of the Atlantic? She's a professor of Classics at Cambridge and an absolute delight - she's fiercely intelligent and has very strong opinions on a lot of things, so the tabloid press try to give her a hard time but she makes them look stupid with a few words every time.

That sort of thing really irritates me. It happens so often in certain British newspapers - intelligent women with intelligent things to say dismissed because they don't look like supermodels... and then if an intelligent woman with intelligent things to say does happen to look like a supermodel, she'll be dismissed too because if she looks like that she must be a bimbo. Apparently, it's not only what they look like - society just has a problem with women having opinions.