{"id":324,"date":"2016-11-09T09:09:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dflgrouptest.local\/?p=324"},"modified":"2016-11-09T09:49:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:49:31","slug":"root-cause-designed-for-life-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designed-for-life.org\/GMtCh34S\/root-cause-designed-for-life-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"The ROOT of why Designed For Life is My Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are 10,000 NGO&#8217;s, not-for-profits, well-intentioned organizations and charities addressing the myriad ills this world has succumbed to. I believe that most are addressing symptoms, and that this issue is the root cause for most of them. \u00a0Sadly, this issue is a complex one&#8211;an issue that many people just don&#8217;t have the patience or even outlet to understand&#8211;let alone the means to feel like they can change it.\u00a0Designed For Life can play a part in changing it. So can you.\u00a0Please watch this episode of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL2S5dQq7szHtPqpuJZW-rGoVCObjU_l94\"> my daily blog<\/a>\u00a0to understand:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VIqdJqn29oY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nARE YOU A MAKER OR A TAKER? \u00a0&#8212; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Makers-Takers-Finance-American-Business\/dp\/0553447238\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1478699960&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=makers+and+takers\">buy the book<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be misled&#8211;this is not the question mishandled by Republican politicians in 2012. This is an entirely different application of the phrase. Put simply: At least 96% of working Americans are MAKERS. The other 4% work in the finance industry that, having been left largely unchecked&#8211;worse, regulated only by themselves&#8211;has run amok and ruined most of our productive economic constructs. Now to be fair only a fraction of this industry creates 90% of these negative effects, as most of those involved in finance are makers themselves&#8211;providing access to capital in various ways to other maker businesses and individuals. But that tiny fraction of a fraction is causing 3 things: slow growth, vast inequality, and unstable world markets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_325\" style=\"width: 1318px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/shawnydlovesac\/playlists\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325\" src=\"https:\/\/dflgrouptest.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Insta-FBP-Inspiration.png\" alt=\"How Designed For Life can help fix it\" width=\"1308\" height=\"982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designed-for-life.org\/GMtCh34S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Insta-FBP-Inspiration.png 1308w, https:\/\/designed-for-life.org\/GMtCh34S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Insta-FBP-Inspiration-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/designed-for-life.org\/GMtCh34S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Insta-FBP-Inspiration-768x577.png 768w, https:\/\/designed-for-life.org\/GMtCh34S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Insta-FBP-Inspiration-1024x769.png 1024w, https:\/\/designed-for-life.org\/GMtCh34S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Insta-FBP-Inspiration-1200x901.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1308px) 100vw, 1308px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seek first to understand this&#8230;this is a big deal. &#8212; \u00a0Shawn Nelson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We live in a boom and bust world, that is not currently Designed For Life&#8211;the problem is that by far, most of the &#8220;boom&#8221; money is made only by this tiny fraction of people who then reinvest that money back into the finance economy&#8211;never impacting most of the inhabitants on earth. This creates outsize wealth&#8211;more than anyone could possibly expend in a lifetime&#8211;more than anyone &#8220;needs.&#8221; And I believe it is because for all of the rules and regulations to prevent this&#8211;it is always left just open enough for those with the largest amounts of money and power to slip through. The rest of us pay the price, and often barely get along.<\/p>\n<p>Our Designed For Life philosophy can only flourish if the decision-makers within an organization are benevolent, well-meaning, and allowed to make moral, ethical, and long-term-focused decisions. Herein lies its weakness. The designed-for-life approach, however, is absolutely a capitalistic approach, as the products that make it through its filter are simply more competitive than those created without. Will you have the strength of character to either build designed-for-life business? Or can you at least stand on principle <em>or<\/em> simple mathematics make the fiscally wise and far-looking decision to buy designed-for-life products?<\/p>\n<p>ARE YOU A MAKER? 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So can you.\u00a0Please watch this episode of my daily blog\u00a0to understand: ARE YOU A MAKER OR A TAKER? \u00a0&#8212; (buy the book) Don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,5],"tags":[52,45,46,42,47,44,51,6,54,53,49,50,22,55,41,40,48,43],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dfl-philosophy","category-vlog-posts","tag-banking","tag-big-finance","tag-broken-system","tag-ceo-vlog","tag-conspiracies","tag-corruption-in-finance","tag-deregulation","tag-designed-for-life","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-hedge-funds","tag-regulation","tag-shawn-nelson","tag-solutions","tag-textbook-tuesday","tag-textbooktuesday","tag-the-root-cause","tag-vlogger"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The ROOT of why Designed For Life is My Mission - Designed For Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are 10,000 NGOs trying to fix our world but what is the root cause of our broken system? 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