Saturday, August 20, 2011
Chapter 243:
at 01:55
Was having a short conversation with my brother about the CCAs I joined and I mentioned the one which advocates business with a heart.
Basically this CCA encourages its members to generate business projects that are socially-driven and not profit-driven. They give back to society by perhaps charging a nominal sum of money while providing aid to needy groups/to improved the environment.
My bro indignantly told me: It's retarded.
Why?
He just insisted that businesses are meant to earn money, and that trying to change the nature of it is just plain and downright foolish.
Is that true?
I don't agree. I concur with the objective and the sense of mission thus I signed up.
I don't believe ALL business can be socially-driven 'cause it's just not efficient. However, I'm certain that the world and life don't operate on certainties and extremities.
So why can't some businesses be socially-driven?
Why can't some projects be aimed at improving lives of people while still involving a transaction?
Why can't we give these projects benefits of doubt before condemning them if it means that some lives can be improved?
Maybe that's why I don't foresee myself being an accountant for life.
I can definitely predict that I'll be jaded after some years and just be aimlessly leading life 'cause this is just not what I see in life.
I don't believe money and profit is everything.
I don't trust that money can buy you happiness.
Indeed, poverty can't do that too but why reach for so, so, so much more when you actually do have enough already? Take a look around, there are still so many people less fortunate so why can't we reach out to them?
& since we all aren't that rich that we can be full-time volunteers or settle for the meager salaries that social workers are paid (believe me, I thought of this career option) so why can't we strike a balance and put what we have learn into good use & give back to the community?
Sure, I do not know that such projects will definitely work and prove to be sustainable, but which business venture is 100% successful? None right? But why is it that people are justified to try if it is profit-driven?
All I want to see is such efforts not be scoffed at/brushed off 'cause if you haven't been there & tried it, who are you to just shoot it off?
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No worries, I love my bro & he is not heartless. His main point was just that business = profit, and that he'll just use some of it to do charity work.
But really, what's stopping you from merging the 2 together?
Is there a definite contradiction?
I don't think so.
There will be opportunity costs incurred but why can't we just operate on the point in which the monetary losses is equivalent to the societal gains?
This is what we have learnt in economics, isn't it?
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