UJAMAA Anyone

We’ve been busy with house cleaning so posting has been a bit tardy we apologize but Happy New Year

Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.

I’ll be honest I’m not to sure about this one!

Cooperative Economics goes way beyond collaboration which suggestion working together for individual gain… Cooperative economics suggest putting aside self and working together and splitting the profits! I’m not sure if most of us can do that! It means understanding that everyone’s input has value! Just getting credit for the images that photographers have helped provide has been a challenge! A designer recently spoke of walking into a local Bedstuy boutique and being assured by the proprietor that they were the designer of an item that was distinctive to her company! WHY/

In a society where being a “mogul” and scoring the big “Catch” seems to be the end goal how can we share info that may jeopardize that chance! I did not post this yesterday; I could not admit that I have little faith in this principle. I am not saying it does not exist, lately, I have seen little of it in practice!

Admittedly I have not been around much; In 2009 I decided to focus on the 80/20; that is put 80% of my effort to the 20% of activity that showed results! I am keeping an eye on Society HAE They seem to be doing some sort of cooperative economics yet I have not asked Ngozi directly! If so I applaud them! May I also recommend their NYE Bash as a solution!

I also had to ask myself about my responsibility, while I have conducted this voluntary project I abstained from a formal economic platform, I am the mother of a seventeen year old high school senior. I needed to be home when he arrived, or more correctly to ensure he arrived at home as he should! As he gets ready to graduate I can now look towards a formal entrepreneurial venture!

I have been considering an cooperative economic format, we’ll see! UJAMAA anyone?

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