Social Impact On Crowdfunding and Why You Matter
How to bring awareness and understanding about crowdfunding to everyday people.
What really
surprised me is that, for example, education gets only 3 percent of the federal
budget pie. With defense (25 percent), healthcare (23 percent) and
pensions (22 percent) being the largest spending, I can not help but wonder how
the federal budget structure would look like if not the Congress, but the crowd
instead would "vote" with its wallets, just like it does on
Kickstarter.
What does it all say?
To me, I believe we are living in the age where too rapid change is happening
in too short a period of time, just like the futurist Alvin Toffler predicted
in his legendary book Future Shock in 1970. It is not easy for the
society, it is not easy for the individuals and I am not sure the inner
metabolism of the government can keep up with it either.
But the important
thing to remember is that we also live in an age where inner connectivity
between individuals has achieved the heights the society has never seen before.
The truth -- as humans, we are not sure we are right about a lot of things. But
humility is not one of them. Without it we are basically animals disparately
trying to compete over scarce resources. Any connectivity makes total sense
only in a human context.
So, if you feel like
coping with the reality is not the answer and you are up to re-invent the
reality instead, I suggest you give up on "I am just a little person"
attitude, and look around with the goal -- is there anyone I can help? You
might be surprised to find out.
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