The Hegemony Fears Your Knowledge and Creativity
I remember watching a documentary showcasing a marketplace on a flatland of some African country and seeing something strikingly interesting and inspiring.
The video production was focused on the trade of cattle and was following both buyers and sellers and other market makers ( the guy running the auction ) and participants ( buyers and sellers of the meat after an auction ).
The producers of cattle made out like bandits since they owned the desired product, grew it and the market was lead by a small group of cattle growers.
The auctioneer made the second most amount for his organizing each auction ( he was the sole auctioneer ), his mere presence ( was a tall guy ) and reputation in the region granted him the occupation of conducting trading and holding money, which is a central place in the entire process of commerce, let alone his place in society.
He held no interest either way, yet benefited from his position / influence among the public and when business was over, walked home wealthy and without a care in the world.. for his 'work' was done and consists mainly of speaking / talking.
Everyone else present capitalized on the parting out of the animals.
Some would only buy the hides to makes clothes and other sale-able products, etc. and so on.
There were specialties of interests dependent on the product and the skill involved.
There was also a young gentlemen which had about completed his studies at the university ( most of the attendees at the market place looked like country men without an ounce of formal education ) who had grown up working among his fellow land inhabitants and the cattle trade was nothing new to him.
Yet his recent scholastic pursuits helped this particular young man notice that the cattle was butchered immediately after being purchased only steps away from the auctioneer's area on the dirt plain, and the buying and selling of cattle parts would commence with everything being sold except... the blood collected in pools all about the marketplace.
This young man noticed the blood was not being utilized, used nor dealt with in any other manner but simply left to be soaked up by the ground and evaporated by the sun and wind.
He learned about making meal out of the blood, which is also something sold in the marketplace, but hardly anyone knew exactly how to cultivate the end product from the blood, which is what the young man had studied out.
Disgusting I'm sure the subject, but genius the observation and action taken.
The young man soon became quite the market maker at the local market place, selling his desired product and having imperial knowledge of his craft, whose knowledge was resourced at a chasm's distance from the other marketplace participants.
Everyone else sees him collecting the blood and also selling meal, but have no clue as to the process or formulas involved nor a glimpse of its innate simplicity, yet it is something unfathomable... and thus the opportunity to participate is closed and the young entrepreneur enjoys a monopoly until another scientist shows up.
He can set any price and win / prosper no matter the market prices, for the blood is acquired and collected for free!
You see, due to privy knowledge, the man turned something out of nothing... to say, he does not pay a dime to capture the blood.
If I remember correctly, I think he taught the buyers and sellers it is better to hang the cattle and capture the blood so a mess wouldn't be made where they stand and conduct their business.
Doing so, he gained the cooperation of everyone involved ( leadership ) and at the same time created his acquisition business model using only his intellect and words to express the keen ideas.
Any situations where you have a demand and your cost to acquire the raw material is zero... it is difficult to fail.
Rich Dad Robert Kiyosaki had a similar story in a book he authored where as a child he was able to gain access to comic books for free and he figured out a way to rent their use out like a special library of comic books for kids.
He created an income from nothing.
So did the guy in the documentary selling meal made out of blood.
I'm always looking for a way to 'see' an opportunity most miss... do you have any keen ideas?
I think this could be an example of making your own money...
SmartPeopleSmartMoney
The video production was focused on the trade of cattle and was following both buyers and sellers and other market makers ( the guy running the auction ) and participants ( buyers and sellers of the meat after an auction ).
The producers of cattle made out like bandits since they owned the desired product, grew it and the market was lead by a small group of cattle growers.
The auctioneer made the second most amount for his organizing each auction ( he was the sole auctioneer ), his mere presence ( was a tall guy ) and reputation in the region granted him the occupation of conducting trading and holding money, which is a central place in the entire process of commerce, let alone his place in society.
He held no interest either way, yet benefited from his position / influence among the public and when business was over, walked home wealthy and without a care in the world.. for his 'work' was done and consists mainly of speaking / talking.
Everyone else present capitalized on the parting out of the animals.
Some would only buy the hides to makes clothes and other sale-able products, etc. and so on.
There were specialties of interests dependent on the product and the skill involved.
There was also a young gentlemen which had about completed his studies at the university ( most of the attendees at the market place looked like country men without an ounce of formal education ) who had grown up working among his fellow land inhabitants and the cattle trade was nothing new to him.
Yet his recent scholastic pursuits helped this particular young man notice that the cattle was butchered immediately after being purchased only steps away from the auctioneer's area on the dirt plain, and the buying and selling of cattle parts would commence with everything being sold except... the blood collected in pools all about the marketplace.
This young man noticed the blood was not being utilized, used nor dealt with in any other manner but simply left to be soaked up by the ground and evaporated by the sun and wind.
He learned about making meal out of the blood, which is also something sold in the marketplace, but hardly anyone knew exactly how to cultivate the end product from the blood, which is what the young man had studied out.
Disgusting I'm sure the subject, but genius the observation and action taken.
The young man soon became quite the market maker at the local market place, selling his desired product and having imperial knowledge of his craft, whose knowledge was resourced at a chasm's distance from the other marketplace participants.
Everyone else sees him collecting the blood and also selling meal, but have no clue as to the process or formulas involved nor a glimpse of its innate simplicity, yet it is something unfathomable... and thus the opportunity to participate is closed and the young entrepreneur enjoys a monopoly until another scientist shows up.
He can set any price and win / prosper no matter the market prices, for the blood is acquired and collected for free!
You see, due to privy knowledge, the man turned something out of nothing... to say, he does not pay a dime to capture the blood.
If I remember correctly, I think he taught the buyers and sellers it is better to hang the cattle and capture the blood so a mess wouldn't be made where they stand and conduct their business.
Doing so, he gained the cooperation of everyone involved ( leadership ) and at the same time created his acquisition business model using only his intellect and words to express the keen ideas.
Any situations where you have a demand and your cost to acquire the raw material is zero... it is difficult to fail.
Rich Dad Robert Kiyosaki had a similar story in a book he authored where as a child he was able to gain access to comic books for free and he figured out a way to rent their use out like a special library of comic books for kids.
He created an income from nothing.
So did the guy in the documentary selling meal made out of blood.
I'm always looking for a way to 'see' an opportunity most miss... do you have any keen ideas?
I think this could be an example of making your own money...
SmartPeopleSmartMoney
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