Dear Mark Silver, Et al.

The short response to your inquiry, "I'm curious your opinion of what I perceive to be the often out-sized impact and thus influence and power that private enterprise can have over communities larger or small, but especially in rural areas where there aren't a lot of choices?" is unconscious bias, but the root cause is the absence of individual autonomy, which is influenced by various external factors.?

Among these factors, is the persistence of our resent history of colonization that is being perpetuated in a subtle manner (métarécit) across all publicly funded educational institutions to date, even in your republic (except for those education institutes that prioritize inquiry-based learning and outcomes which, nowadays, an increasing number of elites are in pursuit of).?

An unconscious bias is especially apparent in our traditional and highly coveted tertiary institution business schools where alumni networks are believed to be the sole means of achieving personal power and wealth without effort (business schools are seen by some, as a "necessary evil" to fund tertiary institutions overall, especially where base funding come through public investment).?

However, even though some individuals may reevaluate their goals after gaining wealth and power through programs like Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI), it is important to note that such programs may still perpetuate a closed loop, and fall short of being a flawless solution until widely accessible (making for a great entrepreneurial opportunity to disrupt using a hybrid model, and lead by a?tertiary or public service institution Chief Entrepreneur).

As a result, our publicly funded education system is generating leaders for both the public and private sectors, who may unknowingly exhibit further biases as they progress into more prominent positions, and are reinforced by an environment that can be likened to an addiction, hence the pac-man like desire to grow revenue at any means possible (gobble gobble needs to no longer be celebrated in our communities, as it is a covert form of colonization, most prominent when social licence is blatantly disguised as philanthropy).

In order to address this, we can start by prioritizing primary education over tertiary education, and immediately implement a public stipend to implement financial literacy in our homes, through creating programs for elementary school students, to empower them towards economic self sovereignty before grade eight, while contributing to their families financial literacy, to earn their stipend.

Moreover, it is important to encourage and empower families and communities to instil acts of kindness in babies and toddlers (as any psychoanalysis, worth their salt would advice) making it a common practice among younger generations to learn to expand (fighting arts like Kung fu helps) emotionally under pressure, grow personal agency, etc etc.?

Ultimately, we should aim to cultivate a culture where being kind is seen as cool and make it trendy, and all the cool kids are doing it regardless of race, religion or nationality as we drag ourselves into the 21st century and away from our culture of kings. ?

As you and I both agree, private corporate enterprises hold significant influence and power over communities of any size, especially in rural areas where non-extraction options are limited. However, the zero-sum game of economic attraction and retention only exists due to a systemic emotional illness and addictive personalities among elected public officials, staff, lobbyists and advisors.

This understanding helps to explain the erosion of public governance systems. It's important to recognize that individual behaviours cannot be corrected externally, and voting using anything other than digital direct democracy is merely theatrical, and guarantees the status quo, which many prefer. By connecting these dots, we can begin to see the patterns that exist in our society.

Prior to proceeding, I would like to emphasize that managing and allocating our public pension funds appropriately is the (biggest lever for non-elites) most effective and efficient way to address and rectify traditional methods of "attract and retain" economic development.

When public servants of all types that pay into public pensions recognize that they solely possess the power to enhance environmental and social equality, which they are currently struggling with themselves, we can promptly adjust our direction through investments and navigate towards common good.?

Some considerations:

All publicly funded economic development should go to attracting and retaining digital nomads and nouveau riche, especially when they're ready to enjoy the nuclear family and community life (think nouveau riche investors falling in love with local investing, that then fuels local living economies, offering?back, the very things they want to consume like food and entertainment) creating a circular economy loop worth caring about.?

Explore the idea of creating a local mortgage investment corporation to encourage local investing and bolster local ownership through bespoke?mortgages. Housing is a continuum, that we let get silo'd through poor public governance, and if one wanted to really short circuit the housing issue, we would simply make residential land-lording illegal and immoral (Jared) in our communities.?

The current trend of rapidly colonizing our food systems through food platforms underscores the importance of returning to communal approaches. A key driver of this trend is the covert collaboration between land developers and business owners who are connecting the dots in the?food industry without public awareness. Ownership matters, and we need to be mindful of who owns what to ensure a fair and equitable food system. Communal food platforms (farm to fork) are profit centres for community economic development if implemented well. (what if Costco was a social enterprise)?

Introduce a?Venture Builder network linked to a publicly traded private equity holding company unique to your region to accelerate both local investing and local living economies.?

Empowering a Chief Entrepreneur that is values aligned with Community Economic Development wedged in between the mayor and council and your city manager and staff, and citizens, would allow for rapid implementation, and the rest will fall into place almost immediately.?

And when ready introduce local asset sovereignty to complete the cycle. ?Sovereign Natural Asset Company (sNAC) as Andrew Markell describes are worth investigation: https://tinyurl.com/2p8vwb5s

I have more, but I will leave it here and suggest inquiry and additions are most welcome to this living document.