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On Values And Judgment

Jul 13th, 2010 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Policy Matters

The fact is that microbusiness owners who fail to worship at the Altar of Growth always seem to be subject to these kinds of value judgments by … well, by pretty much everybody.

My point here is that these are value judgments, no matter what anybody else says, and they are predicated on a certain set of assumptions.

They assume that all growth is good.

They assume that there is no such thing as “enough.”

They assume that anybody who doesn’t want to have a business in order to grow a business should not own a business. They should go find a job instead.

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Self Is The New Employment

Jan 12th, 2009 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Policy Matters

If the last ten years have taught us anything, it is that both money and wealth will gravitate to themselves in much the same way that water molecules are attracted to each other.

What that means, if you’re talking about water, is that wet sponges soak up more liquid than dry sponges. If you’re talking about money and wealth, it means that full purses soak the economy more thoroughly than empty ones.

That is why the pre-occupation of the White House and Congress with economic growth, and their apparent belief that markets are sacrosanct, might best be described as misguided.

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