States charter corporations. That costs, and has reporting involved. Non-profit is a 501-3c ? to the IRS, so that donations become tax deductible, filing that takes a check for $545, plus you must define what you are going to do with the income, and are limited to that. Then comes filing quarterly reports, and yearly, complying with the rules costs thousands a year, forever.
It can work after the fact, do something that people would want to give money to. It is not a good place to start because it is barred from profit making activities.
Humans live somewhere and eat, so it helps to work. Startups are hard, for you need to eat, drink, sleep, bathe, while building. I agree with ike, buy something to start with, grow from there.
Gardens take several years to become productive, and then it is a limited food supply. Cannot pay the bills in beans. A cash economy is needed. Everything has a value, plus or minus, and to survive, you have to stay on the plus side.
I have a business, I hire people, and it is not easy to make a profit. I do see splinter skills, but turning that to income is hard. Most labor can only survive as part of a larger system, people get jobs because they cannot come up with their own work, and other people hire them because they can produce more than they cost.
Profits come from effectivly exploiting small markets before others do, because when you do, you are showing how to many, and they like money too.
Developing a level of skill helps, and a good name. Several items, I am the world supply, and that does not leave room for a copy. It took a long time and much study to learn how.
There are some great skills, programing, graphics design, but those come from one and sell to the world. Most have labor skills, they need a job, and someone to tell them how to do it. There is some semi-skilled, construction, wiring, plumbing, so the highest I can see for this group is a low construction company, cleaning, painting, wiring, plumbing, remodel, but not ready for new construction.
With organization, someone has to sell the jobs, some skills, it helps to do it right, and a labor pool, this group could make a living. It is using what you have, but it gets boring. Skills have to develop till the group can work less and produce something of greater worth.
Small groups can be efffective. Germany leads in the ten person company. They do some small thing, but they are the best, maybe only, and they have the world market. Small groups can be power players in small markets.
I use aspie skill in business. It works. I write, so I have to do something else for money. Publishing and light manufacturing works. I have small markets, too small for anyone else, and many of them. Getting the machines was work, but now they work for me.
The structure of economics, business, law, employment, has a long history. It is how people agree to do things. It is not democratic, it is an exchange, buyer/seller, employer/employee, and anyone who does not do their part is a thief. Kings, Commisars, Republics, and Democracies have come and gone, business has not changed.
It is an agreement of exchange between people. Goods, labor, all is the same.
I would be willing to exchange with you, what do you have? What do you want?
25 Aug 2007, 9:42 pm
