Growing Wealth & The Lingering Unexpected Domestic Food Crisis

It’s not that the economy is failing – what is happening is wealth is being spread-out.

 If the Mayan calendar ends up being false – the next decade should look like the following:

a.  Wealth continues to spread-out across continents and creates ever growing emerging middle classes

b.  These new middle classes quickly realize they can afford quality goods and services

c.  A lot of the highest quality products on the planet continue to come from America

d.  Americans begin to realize the rest of the world ‘exists’ and wants their goods/services

e.  Americans discover how to export via groups like Grovara (www.grovara.com) teaching them how and assisting in partnership creation

f.  Americans begin to prefer selling their products outside of the US because higher profit margins, more opportunity, less competition

g.  American manufacturing 2.0 - BOOM again

h.  Cheap & automated manufacturing facilities cause American unskilled labor to go the way of farming back in the 1920’s - with the invention of the tractor

i. Prices of products domestically Sky-Rocket as supply lessons to sales in newly opened markets – taking preference over domestic inventories

j.  First market category to enter “Global Consumption Bubble” will be Human Consumed Food Products - Prices Sky-Rocket.

k.  America experience a food crisis –  situation lasts 3-5 years until regulations and export tariffs are enacted to ensure supplies are managed according to domestic priorities

l.  America WILL create new skilled job markets as there will become an extremely large demand for tech-savy, customer service oriented, multi-lingual individuals, who have an understanding of marketing, and global sales experience

m.  Unskilled and uneducated labor will be a big problem in America – but most will adapt to survive and will realize that they are going to have to ‘do the jobs that they feel like they are not entitled to be doing’ – busing tables, picking fruit, etc…

Dear Future - What's Happening!

                      Dear Future – What’s Happening!

People ask me: “Why do you post so much on FaceBook?”

I take that question as a complement – I am blessed to have flexibility in my life to allow me to actively promote my social presence – and posting status updates, pictures, videos, comments, have all become routine… If you are reading this, there is a good chance you are no stranger to these practices as well.

My position and understanding of Facebook ‘Activity’ ventures a bit further from the narcissistic “I just like telling everyone where I am and/or what I am doing (at this exact moment).”  Much thought goes into every post. 

Our personal social circles are not just friends, family, and attractive members of the opposite sex – they are our individual audiences.  They are our urban tribes, our support structures, and our partners-in-crime.

Even more importantly – thinking from a ‘Totality of Circumstances’ perspective – I highly deliberate each posting not just for those 1000 who I currently call ‘friend’ but because each posting becomes a data-point of my current-self for future audiences to gain a better cumulative idea of “me”.

All of our recorded postings, interactions, and communications on FaceBook, Email, Text Message, etc… are creating data.  This data currently sits on computer servers across the planet.  Backed up regularly, there might be several copies of every correspondence we make – in today’s corporate-world nothing is/can be permanently deleted (unless expressly stated but even still are you really 100% certain?). 

All of this data will one day be mined, studied, picked-apart, and (most likely) proudly displayed. 

The ancient Egyptians used Pyramids to house their buried dead.  Highly protected with trap doors, secret passages, and armed guards - for many years, highly prized possessions were kept secure from trespassers and tomb-robbers.  But go to any museum and these possessions, corpses, and belongings are dolled up and open for the viewing.  Traditions, cultural respects, and past beliefs – all sacrificed due to the natural phenomenon of time.

    

FaceBook Terms of Service change as readily as a the wind blows across the Sahara.  In 500 years, is it really rational to expect that future generations will adhere to the same respects of our data as we do within our current culture? 

Right now all of our information is kept private – passwords, security, etc… but secrets lose relevance over time - in 300 years who will defend your information from being readily available?  What protections will withstand time to prevent this data from being ‘dug up’ in a similar fashion as the Egyptian tombs? 

You will be long gone – but your FaceBook posts and virtual information will be exposed, studied, and judged. 

Your virtual self will become your legacy.

This is data – this is a record – and just as the Egyptians could have never imagined a mummy being on display as a tourist exhibit – what you post today on FaceBook might  end up as the topic of some futuristic 5^th Graders science study.

How would you like to be remembered?  What will your legacy look like? 

Time to file this on my record for the evening.