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Could the US Economy Be Saved by "Jobs Creation Prizes"?
In the past I have suggested prizes to get energy independence technology breakthroughs, and my suggestions were roundly ignored by the Powers that Be.
I'm from Manhattan -- I have Tude -- I'm still here -- and so, not giving an inch, here is my Modest Proposal for Today ---
National prizes for Job Creation.
These jobs have to last at least 24 months.
They can't be given to relatives or people already associated with the Job Creator Prize Contestant.
The prizes will be awarded on or about 15 January 2012.
They will be based on jobs created between 1 January 2011 and 1 January 2012.
The top ten contestants with jobs created about 10,000 jobs will get the prizes.
The prizes are twofold:
1. A Congressional Gold Medal as an Economy Booster -- and this comes with a large Certificate that states the Gratitude of the Nation, and that outlines in some detail the precise achievements of the medal winner. This would have a blue ribbon and a gold Congressional seal on it. It would come ready for framing.
2. A cash award of $10,000,000 (Ten Million dollars)
The jobs have to be for citizens of USA, performing at least 90% of the job duties in USA, while speaking English, and using skills learned by experience, in High School, or in College.
The jobs have to be profitable for the organization that hires the person. They can't be fake make-work jobs that just p*ss away money to get the gold medal. Each employed person must marginally contribute net profit to the firm that hires him/her.
Within this framework the jobs can be any legal activity. Drug dealing is not OK, but legal porn is OK, and import/export is OK, and manual labor crafts are OK, and intellectula work (researtch and writing) is OK, and farming is OK, and pavement laying, and making music, or art, or manufactured goods, or selling Pizzas or window caulk.
If the contestant commit criminal fraud by breaking the rules, or sneaky activities, then they will be personally prosecuted and get jailtime if that's what a jury decides.
So the contestants have skin in the game.
It's not a freebie giveaway program where they can cheat their way to victory and walk away with the cash and the medal scott free. They are at risk if they cheat. They can lose their liberty.
Ego is a world driver. More for men than for women. But that's OK. It's a fact.
You harness up that Ego for the National Good, and we might find a pathway out of our doldrums.
If the program works as planned, then for the next two year cycle, we can bump it up to 50 prizes of only $5,000,000 (Five Million dollars each). Once the new thing has been done, and people "get" how it works, you don't need as much money to bring contestants in to the process. That was never a major incentive anyway. It was just there so that folks would know that if they won, some of their expenses would be defrayed, and their personal bank account would get bigger -- so it's worth their time to at least consider.
Once tens of thousands of business people know the prizes are worth their time, you don't need to over-incentivize them with cash. The gold medal and the certificate is almost reward enough.
Ideally, you want the prize money to go down to around $1,000,000 (just to pay for overhead and marginal up front costs), and the number of prizes to go to 100 every year.
At some point you are creating a lot of new jobs.
Not by government "stimulus" stupidities. But by incentivizing the Ego drive in Business Personages.
One of these medals is a great resume item for folks in the CEO Circle.
It's almost like an alternative to Gates/Buffett style Foundation work.
This is better than giving money away -- it is teaching people to fish.
The answers so far indicate that you are not thinking "outside the box" with me. People are talking in terms of the standard routine variables -- taxes regulaion -- aggregate demand that we all learned about in Econ 101.
For this question -- come with me outside the box. My implicit premise is that individual persons -- egos, personalities -- personas -- people can be a brand new resource -- never thought of before - since everyone was staring blankly at the standard variables.
I say that one thing is very plain to me in this world -- individual people can make a huge difference. If Warren Buffett decided that his top and only priority in the next 12 months was to create 100,000 good new jobs HE could do it.
So could Bill Gates.
So could 50 other super high achiever individuals.
Whatever they want to get done -- these people can get done, and not just becuase they are rich. They are Ultra-Effective Individuals.
They make things happen you never learned in Econ 101.
In the past I have suggested prizes to get energy independence technology breakthroughs, and my suggestions were roundly ignored by the Powers that Be.
I'm from Manhattan -- I have Tude -- I'm still here -- and so, not giving an inch, here is my Modest Proposal for Today ---
National prizes for Job Creation.
These jobs have to last at least 24 months.
They can't be given to relatives or people already associated with the Job Creator Prize Contestant.
The prizes will be awarded on or about 15 January 2012.
They will be based on jobs created between 1 January 2011 and 1 January 2012.
The top ten contestants with jobs created about 10,000 jobs will get the prizes.
The prizes are twofold:
1. A Congressional Gold Medal as an Economy Booster -- and this comes with a large Certificate that states the Gratitude of the Nation, and that outlines in some detail the precise achievements of the medal winner. This would have a blue ribbon and a gold Congressional seal on it. It would come ready for framing.
2. A cash award of $10,000,000 (Ten Million dollars)
The jobs have to be for citizens of USA, performing at least 90% of the job duties in USA, while speaking English, and using skills learned by experience, in High School, or in College.
The jobs have to be profitable for the organization that hires the person. They can't be fake make-work jobs that just p*ss away money to get the gold medal. Each employed person must marginally contribute net profit to the firm that hires him/her.
Within this framework the jobs can be any legal activity. Drug dealing is not OK, but legal porn is OK, and import/export is OK, and manual labor crafts are OK, and intellectula work (researtch and writing) is OK, and farming is OK, and pavement laying, and making music, or art, or manufactured goods, or selling Pizzas or window caulk.
If the contestant commit criminal fraud by breaking the rules, or sneaky activities, then they will be personally prosecuted and get jailtime if that's what a jury decides.
So the contestants have skin in the game.
It's not a freebie giveaway program where they can cheat their way to victory and walk away with the cash and the medal scott free. They are at risk if they cheat. They can lose their liberty.
Ego is a world driver. More for men than for women. But that's OK. It's a fact.
You harness up that Ego for the National Good, and we might find a pathway out of our doldrums.
If the program works as planned, then for the next two year cycle, we can bump it up to 50 prizes of only $5,000,000 (Five Million dollars each). Once the new thing has been done, and people "get" how it works, you don't need as much money to bring contestants in to the process. That was never a major incentive anyway. It was just there so that folks would know that if they won, some of their expenses would be defrayed, and their personal bank account would get bigger -- so it's worth their time to at least consider.
Once tens of thousands of business people know the prizes are worth their time, you don't need to over-incentivize them with cash. The gold medal and the certificate is almost reward enough.
Ideally, you want the prize money to go down to around $1,000,000 (just to pay for overhead and marginal up front costs), and the number of prizes to go to 100 every year.
At some point you are creating a lot of new jobs.
Not by government "stimulus" stupidities. But by incentivizing the Ego drive in Business Personages.
One of these medals is a great resume item for folks in the CEO Circle.
It's almost like an alternative to Gates/Buffett style Foundation work.
This is better than giving money away -- it is teaching people to fish.
The answers so far indicate that you are not thinking "outside the box" with me. People are talking in terms of the standard routine variables -- taxes regulaion -- aggregate demand that we all learned about in Econ 101.
For this question -- come with me outside the box. My implicit premise is that individual persons -- egos, personalities -- personas -- people can be a brand new resource -- never thought of before - since everyone was staring blankly at the standard variables.
I say that one thing is very plain to me in this world -- individual people can make a huge difference. If Warren Buffett decided that his top and only priority in the next 12 months was to create 100,000 good new jobs HE could do it.
So could Bill Gates.
So could 50 other super high achiever individuals.
Whatever they want to get done -- these people can get done, and not just becuase they are rich. They are Ultra-Effective Individuals.
They make things happen you never learned in Econ 101.