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And we took the money that we made from our farmer's market, and started buying gifts for the homeless and for needy around the world.
And then there's the third plate, because if you walk through an edible landscape, and if you're learning new skills, and if you start to get interested in what's growing seasonally, you might just want to spend more of your own money in support of local producers, not just veg, but meat and cheese and beer and whatever else it might be.
And none of this takes more money and none of this demands a bureaucracy, but it does demand that you think things differently and you are prepared to bend budgets and work programs in order to create that supportive framework that communities can bounce off.
You can make money, you can lose money in Africa.
That equates to about $50,000 in today's money.
I couldn't give them money, nothing.
No democracy anywhere in the world offers this feature to its citizens for either legislation or for budgets, even though those are the things done with our consent and with our money.
Most being that I wasn't given a grant, I wasn't given a lot of money, and I wasn't given a lot of resources.
So I started constructing my sensors and testing them more rigorously, using money that I had gotten from previous science fair awards.
We're financially addicted to growth, because today's financial system is designed to pursue the highest rate of monetary return, putting publicly traded companies under constant pressure to deliver growing sales, growing market share and growing profits, and because banks create money as debt bearing interest, which must be repaid with more.
Progress on this goal isn't going to be measured with the metric of money.
They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills, and to see the world.
Wu Chunming: "Even if I make a lot of money, it won't satisfy me.
Just to make money is not enough meaning in life."
Certain subjects came up over and over: how much money they made, what kind of husband they hoped to marry, whether they should jump to another factory or stay where they were.
What she does with the money she earns, what she learns in that place, and how it changes her, these are the things that matter.
Many articles calculate: How long would it take for this worker to work in order to earn enough money to buy what he's making?
How much money can I save?
Later, she married a fellow migrant worker, moved with him to his village, gave birth to two daughters, and saved enough money to buy a secondhand Buick for herself and an apartment for her parents.
I keep it with me to remind me of the ties that tie me to the young women I wrote about, ties that are not economic but personal in nature, measured not in money but in memories.
Andrew spent 16 years scavenging materials on the dump, earned enough money to turn himself into a contract scaler, which meant he carried a scale and went around and weighed all the materials that people had scavenged from the dump.
It's worth 1.5 trillion dollars every year, and that's a vast amount of money, right?
So the implications of that are vast, because it means that this is where employment is — 1.8 billion people — and this is where we can create a more egalitarian world, because people are actually able to earn money and live and thrive, as Andrew Saboru did.
Here's Mr. Clean looking amorously at all the other Procter & Gamble products, and Procter & Gamble, you know, the statistic always cited is that Wal-Mart is their largest customer, and it's true, as one store, Wal-Mart buys 15 percent, thus 15 percent of Procter & Gamble's business is with Wal-Mart, but their largest market segment is something that they call "high frequency stores," which is all these tiny kiosks and the lady in the canoe and all these other businesses that exist in System D, the informal economy, and Procter & Gamble makes 20 percent of its money from that market segment, and it's the only market segment that's growing.
So when IDA asked for help, I decided to launch CanDo seven months early, with very little money, and many people, including myself, thought I had finally gone mad.
SA: So this actually isn't just about money, either, CanDo isn't just about money.
It's basically just sitting there, waiting for Goldman Sachs to give it some money.
When PayPal was first starting as a business, their biggest challenge was not, "How do I send money back and forth online?"
For example, they charged Saudi foreign fighters substantially more than Libyans, money that would have otherwise gone to al Qaeda.
Some of it's very high-tech, and some of it is extremely low-tech, such as the project that MKSS is running in Rajasthan, India, where they take the spending data of the state and paint it on 100,000 village walls, and then invite the villagers to come and comment who is on the government payroll, who's actually died, what are the bridges that have been built to nowhere, and to work together through civic engagement to save real money and participate and have access to that budget.
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