Do something…

Jeff LaMarche, one of the authors of “Beginning IPhone Development” writes about possible benefits resulting from an economic downturn.

A hundred years ago, only ten percent of people in the United States were employed by someone else. Roughly ninety percent of people owned their own business or were self-employed.
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Today, those numbers are pretty much reversed. Over ninety percent of people work for someone else, and most of those people work for corporations.
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Society would benefit from more entrepreneurs and less corporate drones. I could write a book on the potential impact of even ten percent of current corporate employees becoming self-employed.

It’s more worrying here. Across the UK, the average number of people who work in the public sector is around 20%. In Northern Ireland it’s 30%. A lot of this is due to siting the call centres for may of the public sector services in the province.

While being stuck in a dead-end job in a $BIG_COMPANY may seem to some to be uninspiring or even dangerous to the health of a society, having thirty percent of your workforce working for the government has got to be worse. For the most part these individuals will be unable to innovate, unable to make a major difference, unable to make change. But you see, the government is a safe job. They’re not going to be enamored of risk, not going to consider going ‘all out’ as a viable path and at the end of it you can retire with a nice pension and spend your autumn years tending a raggedy allotment.

Not for me.

I’ll leave you with this…