I've been watching on TV the Teen Mom series. It set me wondering about the advantages to the phenom.
The obvious advantage is the support system the teenage mother can have. Especially if the mom's mother is willing to help raise the baby, the teenager pregnant girl can benefit from not only her mother's assistance but her experience in raising kids by watching and emulating how her mother acts with the newborn.
There's also the biological plus to having children earlier than later. I would imagine there's less probability of her being pregnant with medical complications.
If the father is committed to attending the baby, even helping with changing diapers, the circumstance of a girl's pregancy and childbirth could be rewarding and satisfying for both new teenager parents.
Now, with many high schools opening up child-care departments within the school grounds, the mother can also act as a teenager, forgoing being a mature adult till later. She could even go around with her girlfriends to attend various school and social functions, while her baby is being cared for by those intimate with her situation and wanting to help.
It might be more practical for her to think of attending a local community college, instead of a far off university or four-year college at least while the baby is so young, but with more and more classes at universities being offered online, she should think of enrolling in a four-year college as soon as she completes her associate degree at the community college, if she so desires.
Meantime, she and her baby would have a wonderful binding relationship of growing up together into the world beyond familial bounds.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Venture Capitalism's backing of Entrepreneurs
We are told over the mass media that this year's elections is really between the capitalism upon which the USA was founded and the socialism of modern Europe and Russia.
The credo of entrepreneurial enterprises:
Churn, churn, churn. Come up with an idea for a new product or service, formulate a business plan; find financial backing and concretize the idea into the productive mainstream of industry! (The Socialist addendum: Abide by all relevant regulations.) Churn, churn, churn. Doesn't work, can't successfully market the product that embodies the idea? Churn, churn, churn. Get another idea and get the cash to back it for production. See if it takes. Churn, churn, churn. Try something else!
The entrepreneurs survive withal--whether or not the conceptions become profitable. So, they don't mind, but learn to accept, failure as an essential part of the capitalistic cycle involving times of boon and bust (commencing with bubble-burst).
The Avaracious Need for Money
Hallmark of capitalism is the constant infusion of financial resources to produce goods. Emphasis is placed on the goods and services brought about. In the capitalist project, there are no people but entrepreneurs bent upon reaping the financial gains of their successful entrepreneurial projects.
But, you ask, how about the people who are hired and do the producing so long as the enterprise lasts?--the question of the Marxists; and how about the people who buy the goods and services, i.e., the consumers?--the question of alienation raised by the Existentialists. Don't the interests and concerns of these people count in the capitalist equation?
Churn, churn, churn.
People don't count in the capitalist model. It's assumed, instead, that the laws of biology apply by which the fittest survive. If you have the wits and the abilities to survive, you'll survive and do well--for as long as you can. Hold on!
Cash is the demand of these entrepreneurs; cash to support their ventures.
Need cash, cash, cash--churn, churn, churn.
If workers are thrown out of work, if consumers don't find the products and services sufficiently satisfying; if investors of these ventures lose their money, well, that's the way things are. If people get sick, if their society rots because of bad water, bad air, bad food, bad everything, then get used to it! That's the way things are in the world. We're not on earth for long anyway! Remember, the good times you've had?
The products of the capitalist ventures; ah, the shiny, new goods placed in showrooms and paraded in fairs; ah, these wondrous gifts of the entrepreneurs to mankind. The delectable food at five-star restaurants; the sporting events at new arenas. Just give entrepreneurs money, more money, more, more money!
Reflection on Capitalism
Believe it or not, I have found many world leaders have pondered the social effects of the capitalist program. Leaders in Europe and in Russia and in China have weighed the good and bad from its use, particularly in the US. They have concluded, in my opinion, that the hectic cycle of boon and bust, prosperity to depression, is just too hard on people (particularly, on people's psyche)--the very concern capitalism ignores.
The 2012 Election Showdown: Unfettered Capitalism or Regulatory Socialism
The general complaint among entrenprenuers is the burden of government regulation they must bear in a socialist system. They find it inhibiting to the capitalist aims of yielding products and services for consumers. If only they could get government off their backs!
This federal election in the US is supposed to clearly demarcate the differences between socialism (of Europe and Asia) and capitalism in the USA. The differences may be summarized into the form of a question: is the US citizen up to enduring another economic cycle of boon and bust once the 2008-Depression is over? If so, look for another economic bubble, which in time will burst.
The credo of entrepreneurial enterprises:
Churn, churn, churn. Come up with an idea for a new product or service, formulate a business plan; find financial backing and concretize the idea into the productive mainstream of industry! (The Socialist addendum: Abide by all relevant regulations.) Churn, churn, churn. Doesn't work, can't successfully market the product that embodies the idea? Churn, churn, churn. Get another idea and get the cash to back it for production. See if it takes. Churn, churn, churn. Try something else!
The entrepreneurs survive withal--whether or not the conceptions become profitable. So, they don't mind, but learn to accept, failure as an essential part of the capitalistic cycle involving times of boon and bust (commencing with bubble-burst).
The Avaracious Need for Money
Hallmark of capitalism is the constant infusion of financial resources to produce goods. Emphasis is placed on the goods and services brought about. In the capitalist project, there are no people but entrepreneurs bent upon reaping the financial gains of their successful entrepreneurial projects.
But, you ask, how about the people who are hired and do the producing so long as the enterprise lasts?--the question of the Marxists; and how about the people who buy the goods and services, i.e., the consumers?--the question of alienation raised by the Existentialists. Don't the interests and concerns of these people count in the capitalist equation?
Churn, churn, churn.
People don't count in the capitalist model. It's assumed, instead, that the laws of biology apply by which the fittest survive. If you have the wits and the abilities to survive, you'll survive and do well--for as long as you can. Hold on!
Cash is the demand of these entrepreneurs; cash to support their ventures.
Need cash, cash, cash--churn, churn, churn.
If workers are thrown out of work, if consumers don't find the products and services sufficiently satisfying; if investors of these ventures lose their money, well, that's the way things are. If people get sick, if their society rots because of bad water, bad air, bad food, bad everything, then get used to it! That's the way things are in the world. We're not on earth for long anyway! Remember, the good times you've had?
The products of the capitalist ventures; ah, the shiny, new goods placed in showrooms and paraded in fairs; ah, these wondrous gifts of the entrepreneurs to mankind. The delectable food at five-star restaurants; the sporting events at new arenas. Just give entrepreneurs money, more money, more, more money!
Reflection on Capitalism
Believe it or not, I have found many world leaders have pondered the social effects of the capitalist program. Leaders in Europe and in Russia and in China have weighed the good and bad from its use, particularly in the US. They have concluded, in my opinion, that the hectic cycle of boon and bust, prosperity to depression, is just too hard on people (particularly, on people's psyche)--the very concern capitalism ignores.
The 2012 Election Showdown: Unfettered Capitalism or Regulatory Socialism
The general complaint among entrenprenuers is the burden of government regulation they must bear in a socialist system. They find it inhibiting to the capitalist aims of yielding products and services for consumers. If only they could get government off their backs!
This federal election in the US is supposed to clearly demarcate the differences between socialism (of Europe and Asia) and capitalism in the USA. The differences may be summarized into the form of a question: is the US citizen up to enduring another economic cycle of boon and bust once the 2008-Depression is over? If so, look for another economic bubble, which in time will burst.
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