Sunday, June 3, 2012

BloggeRhythms 6/3/2012

This morning I caught a few minutes of an interview with Bill Gates from the 92nd Street ‘Y” in Manhattan which interested me for two reasons. First and foremost, I grew up around the corner from the place and spent significant time there; playing basketball, swimming and diving in the huge indoor pool, bowling on their lanes and shooting hours of billiards. And reason number two is because of what Bill had to say.

Although the focus of the conversation was centered on his charitable work and discussion of his travels around the globe trying to provide help in many places where needed, he supplemented his comments with references to his business experience. And that’s the part that struck me especially.

Because although I believe his politics run to the Democrat side -although my research shows that through 2011 his contributions run just about even between both major parties (Democrat 54.51%, Republican 45.49%)- he made one extremely interesting observation which I think puts all politicos in their place.

He opined that the best thing young people can do for themselves career-wise is to pursue something they love to do, concentrating most on developing the required skills and focusing less on income. And in that way, as they grow into their professions they’ll have a better chance at success, financial and otherwise, than by dwelling on dollars in the first place. In fact, in mentioning Microsoft he said that early on his major concern was developing software and making payroll, and he never imagined his eventual results.   
 
And in that regard, although he never really dwelled on politics nor government at all, I think he made it more than clear that business and the economy overall are driven by people and their accomplishments, not the other way around. And considering that he’s personally in far better financial shape than a nation carrying fifteen trillion in debt, I think perhaps the administration ought to follow his advice, back off and simply leave folks alone. Because it’s quite obvious that business-wise, government simply doesn’t know what it’s doing, never has and never will.      
 

That’s it for today folks.

 Adios

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