The Hub Radio Prep Vault - Opportunity Rocks! How To Be A Capitalist and Whether I'm A Greedy Bastard
Originally discussed on June 5th, 2006
Case Studies 101
DC Comical Old-Timing – Losing at the Future? – Wired, May 2006, pp. 36
Googlevision – Wired, pp. 136, June 2006
What causes a company to say no to change?
Case Studies 101
Southeast Asians Get Drug Tested – Wired, May 2006, pp. 27
When you think of capitalism, what comes to mind?
What have been some of your own personal experiences with capitalism? How did you feel about being a part? How much of it depends on your upbringing? What are the adjectives you would associate with it?
Who benefits from capitalism? Who stands to lose?
Wal-Mart Plays Nice – Giving Floor Ads to Mom and Pop
Wal-Mart has been put through the meat grinder by many for their corporate interests that make a clean sweep of small businesses when they transplant themselves into a community. As a compromise, some Wally Worlds are allowing floor space to Mom and Pop inside the new Wal-Mart stores in order to help Gramps move the jarred preserves and candied yams of yesteryear that they have peddled for years. Is this a fair compensation?
Betting on the Stars – New website for gambling on the future of celebrities – Wagerweb.com lets you gamble on whether Britney will reach for the baby or the coffee on her next Grande Mishap.
Capitalism - Always a gamble at a certain level?
What must one believe and/or do in order to get ahead in a brave new world of capitalism? What do you use to get ahead?
Be More Creative – Don’t Let Al Gorge On the Environment Issue. Support the Cause by Busting Your Ass – Just ask Peter Bethune (Florida Man Who Powers His Speedboat with biodiesels generated from the fat in his rear end).
SOUND OFF
Agree or disagree?
“Let us make our mistakes just as we let you make yours.” – Sup. Court Justice Antonin Scalia to Congress
We should share culture, not capitalize over others. Ours is a culture of everyone.
Do you think capitalism is just an economic issue? Where does it come into play with our entertainment? Romance? Friendships? Politics? Sports? Work?
Social Scene Capitalism: How do you recognize the alpha male? Is the ‘Alpha Male’ always the biggest capitalist in the room?
When you’re at a social, what ‘type’ of person is set apart in everybody’s mind as the
go-getter/rising star? What are your clues? How do you interact with them differently?
Romantic Capitalism: Charlie Sheen/Denise Richards Break-up – Denise Goes After Bon Jovi Guitarist and former best friend Heather Locklear’s Husband Richie Sambora and Hollywood Launches A New Clothing Line for the Feud – Star Magazine, pp. 40, 42-43, June 12th
What do you think of that? What’s going on there? What’s the difference between capitalism and outright exploitation? What are ways that we exploit people emotionally?
Have you ever seen someone leverage their status to change a system they didn’t like? Is that selfish? How do you feel about it?
Baby Brangelina Forces Namibia Government Lockdown on the Papparazzi
What are ways that we exploit people’s privacy/trust? With camera phones and small digital cameras strangers are showing up all over the place online. How do you feel about the Stalker/Shutterbug debate? Should people be able to capitalize on the moment and share it with the world as long as it’s in public and not illegal?
Da Vinci Code Makes Mona Lisa Smile
Does religion thrive by capitalizing on people’s emotional needs? Is that wrong? How is it different from the corporation?
What about in sports? Barry Bonds verses Hank Aaron? The great performance-enhancing drug debate. Was it capitalism or was it exploiting the system?
CHEW ON THIS:
Exploitation is something we allow to be done to ourselves because we don’t recognize it or we make a judgement call and say “the good feeling is worth the risk”. Are we not partially to blame when the “crap hits the fan” in our little playpen? A lot of the reason the play pen is still fun even though we’re locked in is because we’re infants with no freedom to compare and contrast against our cooped up existence. We’re happy because we don’t know what we’re missing. Do you agree?
HEADLINE of the WEEK
Duke Lacrossed Her
The Trial of the Duke Lacrosse Team vs. the Stripper Who Says They Gang-Raped Her
Who’s capitalizing on this situation? Who’s exploiting it?
Case Study 101: A young couple with a husband catching red eye flights to his sweet by and bys with his Sweet 16 “Piece of American Pie”. He is capitalizing on Sweet 16, her intrigue with him and her innocence and his wife feels betrayed. What does his wife feel – loneliness, guilt, confusion, frustration, eventually anger. He leaves her vulnerable. The single guy next door is a really good listener and he’s there when she needs a friend. Before it’s over he’s getting his own “piece of the pie”. What’s your take on this love quadrangle?
What allows people to be exploited emotionally?
Political Gaming with Immigration – How are both sides trying to capitalize on the issue?
Is there really any way to “do” capitalism without it being at the expense of someone? Is it a system that can only survive when one group loses out to another?
CHEW ON THIS
Democracy Inaction
What about streamlining it so everyone is kept on an equal footing? Is that possible?
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” – Winston Churchill
Case Studies 101
DC Comical Old-Timing – Losing at the Future? – Wired, May 2006, pp. 36
Googlevision – Wired, pp. 136, June 2006
What causes a company to say no to change?
Case Studies 101
Southeast Asians Get Drug Tested – Wired, May 2006, pp. 27
When you think of capitalism, what comes to mind?
What have been some of your own personal experiences with capitalism? How did you feel about being a part? How much of it depends on your upbringing? What are the adjectives you would associate with it?
Who benefits from capitalism? Who stands to lose?
Wal-Mart Plays Nice – Giving Floor Ads to Mom and Pop
Wal-Mart has been put through the meat grinder by many for their corporate interests that make a clean sweep of small businesses when they transplant themselves into a community. As a compromise, some Wally Worlds are allowing floor space to Mom and Pop inside the new Wal-Mart stores in order to help Gramps move the jarred preserves and candied yams of yesteryear that they have peddled for years. Is this a fair compensation?
Betting on the Stars – New website for gambling on the future of celebrities – Wagerweb.com lets you gamble on whether Britney will reach for the baby or the coffee on her next Grande Mishap.
Capitalism - Always a gamble at a certain level?
What must one believe and/or do in order to get ahead in a brave new world of capitalism? What do you use to get ahead?
Be More Creative – Don’t Let Al Gorge On the Environment Issue. Support the Cause by Busting Your Ass – Just ask Peter Bethune (Florida Man Who Powers His Speedboat with biodiesels generated from the fat in his rear end).
SOUND OFF
Agree or disagree?
“Let us make our mistakes just as we let you make yours.” – Sup. Court Justice Antonin Scalia to Congress
We should share culture, not capitalize over others. Ours is a culture of everyone.
Do you think capitalism is just an economic issue? Where does it come into play with our entertainment? Romance? Friendships? Politics? Sports? Work?
Social Scene Capitalism: How do you recognize the alpha male? Is the ‘Alpha Male’ always the biggest capitalist in the room?
When you’re at a social, what ‘type’ of person is set apart in everybody’s mind as the
go-getter/rising star? What are your clues? How do you interact with them differently?
Romantic Capitalism: Charlie Sheen/Denise Richards Break-up – Denise Goes After Bon Jovi Guitarist and former best friend Heather Locklear’s Husband Richie Sambora and Hollywood Launches A New Clothing Line for the Feud – Star Magazine, pp. 40, 42-43, June 12th
What do you think of that? What’s going on there? What’s the difference between capitalism and outright exploitation? What are ways that we exploit people emotionally?
Have you ever seen someone leverage their status to change a system they didn’t like? Is that selfish? How do you feel about it?
Baby Brangelina Forces Namibia Government Lockdown on the Papparazzi
What are ways that we exploit people’s privacy/trust? With camera phones and small digital cameras strangers are showing up all over the place online. How do you feel about the Stalker/Shutterbug debate? Should people be able to capitalize on the moment and share it with the world as long as it’s in public and not illegal?
Da Vinci Code Makes Mona Lisa Smile
Does religion thrive by capitalizing on people’s emotional needs? Is that wrong? How is it different from the corporation?
What about in sports? Barry Bonds verses Hank Aaron? The great performance-enhancing drug debate. Was it capitalism or was it exploiting the system?
CHEW ON THIS:
Exploitation is something we allow to be done to ourselves because we don’t recognize it or we make a judgement call and say “the good feeling is worth the risk”. Are we not partially to blame when the “crap hits the fan” in our little playpen? A lot of the reason the play pen is still fun even though we’re locked in is because we’re infants with no freedom to compare and contrast against our cooped up existence. We’re happy because we don’t know what we’re missing. Do you agree?
HEADLINE of the WEEK
Duke Lacrossed Her
The Trial of the Duke Lacrosse Team vs. the Stripper Who Says They Gang-Raped Her
Who’s capitalizing on this situation? Who’s exploiting it?
Case Study 101: A young couple with a husband catching red eye flights to his sweet by and bys with his Sweet 16 “Piece of American Pie”. He is capitalizing on Sweet 16, her intrigue with him and her innocence and his wife feels betrayed. What does his wife feel – loneliness, guilt, confusion, frustration, eventually anger. He leaves her vulnerable. The single guy next door is a really good listener and he’s there when she needs a friend. Before it’s over he’s getting his own “piece of the pie”. What’s your take on this love quadrangle?
What allows people to be exploited emotionally?
Political Gaming with Immigration – How are both sides trying to capitalize on the issue?
Is there really any way to “do” capitalism without it being at the expense of someone? Is it a system that can only survive when one group loses out to another?
CHEW ON THIS
Democracy Inaction
What about streamlining it so everyone is kept on an equal footing? Is that possible?
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” – Winston Churchill
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