The joy of creating opportunity for all

January 18, 2021. Straight from my management notes. Eliminating poverty means creating opportunity, not expanding charity or social welfare programs which, at best, offer temporary, unsustainable relief and, at worst, addiction to the going-broke nanny state. Per Margaret Thatcher, "Sooner out later you run out of other people's money."

One of my per peeves is the tendency to complain or criticize yet without offering a constructive solution or way forward. People, pundits, politicians and kinky pollsters tend to phrase their work in terms of problems, threats, and "what's wrong." Worse, although they might as one 'expert' for a solution, the response is usually biased and personal rather than scientific and professional. Wishful thinking and self-serving solutions are often the norm and rarely a workable, realistic solution. Too often a journalist seeks out a confirmatory opinion from a supposed expert, a person who will tell the journalist that he is right. How often do you see an expert reject the journalist's claim or hypothesis? Rarely if ever; those situations end up on the cutting room floor or in the digital trash.

The topic here is about the need to create opportunity, not to just eliminate a bad situation, not to just 'save' the environment. We want to make things better. The following file contains my class notes, links and additions resources that explain why finding and creating opportunity is critical to prosperity, justice and sustainability.

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