I was at my local county’s leadership development class yesterday.
Our exercise was to create a “Simulated Society” and everyone was put into groups and random and they had to forge their own society for the day.
It’s like “Survivor” without the mud or foraging for food… and it’s just one day. No million dollars either.
Hopefully, people in the county will take what they learned and practice working together to improve the county…the key to success in the model was for all the sub-sectors of the county to seek mutual prosperity but lots of things got in the way throughout the day.
It was interesting to see how much deal making went on to keep everybody “alive”.
In our society, little deal making seems to take place… yesterday nobody had a job to start out with except a few people… and if you didn’t find a way to make it, you died quickly.
It was odd to see a local entrepreneur who’s in rental properties cringe and go “oh my gosh how am I going to survive?”
Not too long ago most families in the US were independent business people who had to go out and make something happen daily in order to survive. They didn’t have employers going out and striking the deals. They didn’t have unemployment insurance. They didn’t have politicians buying their votes with hand outs (that was incredibly easy I found out yesterday too!), and they really did die if they couldn’t forge an existence for themselves.
Perhaps that’s why they might have been more thankful on Thanksgiving Day…
No comments yet.