Recently I spend three weeks as volunteer labor writing a review of a paper about a nineteenth-century philosopher known for advocating the abolition of private property.
I was reviewing a paper for publication consideration in a global peer-to-peer academic publishing organization in which the primary shareholders are deeply invested in global publishing, financial assets, and real estate across the western world.
I was approached by the organization in a manner of a non-profit organization, asking for a donation, not of money, but of my services.
I have a proclivity to place other purposes before money and so providing volunteer services…
Established in the wake of a newly centralized United States Economy,
Legal status disclosure: This is an opinion of a layperson. independent researcher ,and private citizen of Maine.
My generation, aka the baby boomers, did not create the great wealth divide that advantages the few at the expense of the many, but we allowed it to take place. In order to understand a great effect, one needs to understand the molecular response occurring at the scale of individual human interaction.This …
Will sheltering in place move society more toward central management or encourage individualism?
I grew up in a business in a home that designs and handcrafts ceramics. For a while the business also had a production employing about 25 people in a separate location. It was found that our type of production is better suited to a smaller more intimate setting, such as a business attached to a home.
However, over the course of 67 years, the size of the line grew too wide and large to be produced in a small studio and I envisioned that the future of…
This Profile is an enhanced version of my Remote Working Profile sponsored on Data Driven Investor
I was raised in a business in a home, established in 1952 on the coast of Maine. as a complete product development system from design to marketplace. Production started with bags of raw materials mixed into glazes and casting slip, using original recipes, designed by my Dad. and poured into original mold designs to create ceramic functional forms and sculptures, which were then marketed in-house to wholesale and retail markets.
The Andersen Design enterprise was formulated as an S corporation and located in a…
Recently I contacted a law firm specializing in non-profits about forming a 501(3)©, which can function as a fiscal sponsor as I described in How Marxian Indoctrination Sustains The Great Wealth Divide. It was through the process of writing that I came to the realization that Andersen Design is ideally suited to create a new fiscal sponsorship model, or adapting existing ones, to benefit the maker first as opposed to the investment community first, relegating the producer and researcher to a secondary cause.
It was a fine conversation but the law firm is beyond my budget at an estimated cost…
It's more than ironic that at the time that Andersen Design, a company established with the philosophy of creating a hand made product affordable to the middle classes, during an era when America had a middle class, (1950's) and which has always operated our production as an art form and as a business in a home, (excepting a period when we had a production space in Portland , Maine after our local community would not allow us to build a larger production on our own property/).
When we applied to Fractured Atlas ,we were trying to save that production in…
Yesterday morning I posted a comment to a story in the Boothbay Register about the minimum wage increase in Maine. It remained online for a least a minute before it was wiped.
Interestingly Disqus was on to it before I even got there about two minutes after my comment was wiped. The message on Disqus says “Deleted as Spam: and then “Thanks, were working on getting this corrected”.
A while back, when my Boothbay Register comments first started being deleted, they were marked as spam in Disqus and there was a link provided tp contest it. …
How I came to be recruited without an organizational background
I am taking a break from working on my consulting profile. Submitting my profile will mean having an agent for remote work. I was invited to do so as an outcome of publishing on my own as an unknown. In corporate speak, I have been recruited.
I am now creating my portal to the remote working community and scaling into the larger world where I have traditionally found greater acceptance. I have not the conventional background but the movers and shakers are not necessarily looking for conventional. …
Trump has brought into focus a long brewing social crisis
I was a Republican, until the 2016 convention when a petition gathered enough signatures to let delegates vote their conscience, and was promptly dismissed by a voice vote.
That was when I first became aware that the Republican party was afraid, intimidated and dominated by the Trump base. I felt the party took the traditional base of the party, which included myself, for granted, as if we were party players, guaranteed to support the party, unquestionably, no matter where it went.
Deeply rooted party obedience has been established. Many whom…
As Corona Virus demands change, a transforming culture grant us permission to be who we never thought we would be.
I awoke in the morning in an instance that dreaming becomes consciousness, a transition as elusive to detect as that precise moment when night becomes dawn.
I was travelling in my dream on the main road out of town passing through the point where the Harbor becomes Boothbay. On the side of the road, I saw a sign that said “Learn Farm”, crafted on a wooden board painted with weathered white paint, and written in Times New Roman font. …