Building Infinite Sustainability with Tech

You want to change the world.

Sure you do. So do a billion other people on Facebook. Everyone knows that tomorrow could be a better day if we choose to build it that way, but we don’t participate. Why is it so hard to get people people to give their time to build a better future? Perhaps they are not looking at the problem through the correct lens? Maybe it’s because they don’t have the right tools?

There is a gap between Non-profits and traditional for profit businesses. Non-profits depend on donor’s money. They have to spend time and money fundraising rather than helping those in need. Their system is not sustainable.

Traditional for profits companies don’t care about suppressing wages and destroying the environment. They are only in search of profit. When they sell a natural resource it makes the resource more scarce and therefore decreases supply. When they lobby governments to allow access to the natural resources we all share, they make the resource scarce and then sell it back to us. This system is not sustainable.

Eventually the markets would fix the problem. When clean water becomes scarce, the price will rise. How many people will have to suffer before we address the causal problem?

The good news is that there are sustainable solutions.

What does sustainable mean and how do we apply it to today’s problems. Sustainability must take everything involved in a process into consideration. Sustainability has no end. It just keeps on existing. Sustainability is simple at its core. It is derived of three principles

The first of these principles is to take care of the environment and our resources. Simple examples might be to plant one tree when one is cut down and to burn less fossil fuels. Did you watch What the Health? The next principle involves the people. How many hours can someone work before they are no longer able to perform. How much can wages be suppressed before we become mentally ill? The last, and often not considered principle, is profit. Does the entity have enough return on its investments of time and resources to open the doors tomorrow.

These three items considered together as a triple bottom line become the key to sustainability. They enable us to open the doors tomorrow. And the tomorrow after that. And the tomorrow after that. Forever.

This is why sustainability is inherently infinite. Anything short of truly sustainable will come to an end. This is why we must realign the world’s current profit only mindset.

Life is an infinite game, but only if we choose to play it that way.

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