The Corporation - 10th Anniversary Survey
The movie The Corporation is an amazing movie. For me it really summed up a lot of the problems in the world today and helped me come up with the solutions I present on this website. I highly recommend watching/buying it.
So they sent me a survey and they asked me if I had any ideas on how to grow the movement.
This is what I suggested:
I want to help, I want to be your biggest supporter, but not to help people make fleeting pledges. I want to help create a resource of real world solutions/choices for people to use, and a community people can join to see what others are doing.
Here's how it can be done:
1. You need to do a TED talk about a follow up movie. One where we start a corporation with the mission statement to end the issues with corporations.
2. Leading up to that we need to meet to discuss/start this new corporation, and start filming.
I have a website describing the type of corporation in detail. In short it could be thought of as a 'Happiness Service Provider' (HSP). It seeks to maximize the benefit of its shareholders in non-monetary ways, and it also sells those services to non-shareholders like any other for profit business.
http://spontaneouscooperation.weebly.com/
The TED talk will draw attention to the issue, and the new corporation, and get people to join the HSP. The use of the HSP services will benefit the users but also benefit the movement.
As I was watching this movie for the first time in 2005 it seemed to me that the only way anyone is going to beat the problems with corporations is to start a corporation that does it better. To be the example for others to follow. I've been thinking about this since 2005 and I think the HSP is the solution, or at least a starting point.
From what I can tell every activist everywhere is doing it wrong. They are asking people to compromise in some way in hope of a better future. Either give money or time, or both, and give up products or services which are the most convenient or seem to produce the best results. People don't like to compromise, and they don't want to give things up so they can maybe help someone else in the future. Someone else they don't even know.
What we need to do is show people that there are things that could help drive this movement which are not compromises. They could have immediate positive impact on the person. Maybe don't even mention the wide spreading benefits of what they are doing, focus on how it's better for them.
The HSP will acts as a guide in this information intense world we live in. Helping people make better decisions, all day every day. Decisions of what to buy, what to eat, what to worry about. And establishing a community where people can collaborate and take advantage of the 'group'. Think of it like lifehacker and groupon and Oprah's favourite things, all wrapped into one but with an underlying goal to make the world a better place. The goal of the HSP is really to allow people to be the 'homo economicus' we're supposed to be, and to make the whole system work the way it was intended.
I really want to help. I could commit all of my spare time to this and probably raise $20k, and I'm sure you could raise another $50-$100k on kickstarter in a short amount of time.
If you want this movement to gain some real traction and have a chance against the corporations, please get in touch.
So they sent me a survey and they asked me if I had any ideas on how to grow the movement.
This is what I suggested:
I want to help, I want to be your biggest supporter, but not to help people make fleeting pledges. I want to help create a resource of real world solutions/choices for people to use, and a community people can join to see what others are doing.
Here's how it can be done:
1. You need to do a TED talk about a follow up movie. One where we start a corporation with the mission statement to end the issues with corporations.
2. Leading up to that we need to meet to discuss/start this new corporation, and start filming.
I have a website describing the type of corporation in detail. In short it could be thought of as a 'Happiness Service Provider' (HSP). It seeks to maximize the benefit of its shareholders in non-monetary ways, and it also sells those services to non-shareholders like any other for profit business.
http://spontaneouscooperation.weebly.com/
The TED talk will draw attention to the issue, and the new corporation, and get people to join the HSP. The use of the HSP services will benefit the users but also benefit the movement.
As I was watching this movie for the first time in 2005 it seemed to me that the only way anyone is going to beat the problems with corporations is to start a corporation that does it better. To be the example for others to follow. I've been thinking about this since 2005 and I think the HSP is the solution, or at least a starting point.
From what I can tell every activist everywhere is doing it wrong. They are asking people to compromise in some way in hope of a better future. Either give money or time, or both, and give up products or services which are the most convenient or seem to produce the best results. People don't like to compromise, and they don't want to give things up so they can maybe help someone else in the future. Someone else they don't even know.
What we need to do is show people that there are things that could help drive this movement which are not compromises. They could have immediate positive impact on the person. Maybe don't even mention the wide spreading benefits of what they are doing, focus on how it's better for them.
The HSP will acts as a guide in this information intense world we live in. Helping people make better decisions, all day every day. Decisions of what to buy, what to eat, what to worry about. And establishing a community where people can collaborate and take advantage of the 'group'. Think of it like lifehacker and groupon and Oprah's favourite things, all wrapped into one but with an underlying goal to make the world a better place. The goal of the HSP is really to allow people to be the 'homo economicus' we're supposed to be, and to make the whole system work the way it was intended.
I really want to help. I could commit all of my spare time to this and probably raise $20k, and I'm sure you could raise another $50-$100k on kickstarter in a short amount of time.
If you want this movement to gain some real traction and have a chance against the corporations, please get in touch.