I left a comment on Alex Mandossian’s blog about a recent entry of his.
Quite an entry I might add. Needless to say, I agree with his well researched post and am glad that people who have a platform use it to promote ideals and help point towards the future.
In my comment, I say that 80% of the working population used to be entrepreneurs until about 1945. These numbers are approximations and may vary from state to state and country to country but they are a prety good ballpark figure. What happened since then?
The second half of the 20th century was, in my opinion, an aberration that needs to be corrected.
Maybe I side too much with the entrepreneurs, but is it just coincidence that with the rise of the corporation era, to the point where entrepreneurs only made up 10% of the working population, was also the time when all of our environmental problems started . . .
It is often said that large corporations can’t adapt quickly because they are too big, that they are conservative and don’t like to change their ways. When they start causing a problem, they keep on making it worse because they don’t change their ways.
Hopefully, the next generation of interdependent entrepreneurs will be quicker at solving all of the pressing environmental issues that are currently putting the survival of the human race at stake.
Despite my optimism, I am reminded that it was in fact two very ambitious entrepreneurs, Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller, who helped launch the big corporation era and our dependence on cars and oil, the two most important causes of our current environnmental and political predicament.
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