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March 2009 
Levels and lines...
Posted on Apr 29th, 2007
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Grey
Grey
Or how about AQALCO as a blog title? ;-)
OK, one last post about AGLOCO, at least for a while until I see how things develop from here.
I was writing an e-mail to friends and family about AGLOCO earlier today, thinking about how they might react to the message, when I had something of a minor revelation. One of my main qualms about the whole thing is that it seems like such an "orange" (see What Is Altitude?) capitalist, materialistic undertaking. You know, "money for nothing", "get-rich-quick schemes", that kind of thing. And, naturally enough, most AGLOCO members will be attracted to it precisely for that reason.
But what if you took whatever money you earned on AGLOCO and used it for a worthy cause (say, sponsoring Zaadz ;-) or lending money through Kiva)? And what if you used that premise as a means of building a network of other people committed to doing the same thing? Maybe all working for the same cause? Well, then all of a sudden at least one "line" of the service has jumped to a whole new "level" (or "altitude"), out of orange and into green or even second tier (teal or turquoise).
I don't know how the whole company share allocation thing will work, and it's probably too early to speculate since no one has actually started earning shares yet, but with a portion of the company's shareholders actually being "integrally informed", it may even be possible to influence (however slightly) the direction in which the company evolves.
Anyway, just something to think about. It probably won't change the world, but it couldn't hurt. And I mean, if you don't do something like this, the money will just go to someone else who'll most likely use it for their own selfish purposes.
Cheers,
Grey
OK, one last post about AGLOCO, at least for a while until I see how things develop from here.
I was writing an e-mail to friends and family about AGLOCO earlier today, thinking about how they might react to the message, when I had something of a minor revelation. One of my main qualms about the whole thing is that it seems like such an "orange" (see What Is Altitude?) capitalist, materialistic undertaking. You know, "money for nothing", "get-rich-quick schemes", that kind of thing. And, naturally enough, most AGLOCO members will be attracted to it precisely for that reason.
But what if you took whatever money you earned on AGLOCO and used it for a worthy cause (say, sponsoring Zaadz ;-) or lending money through Kiva)? And what if you used that premise as a means of building a network of other people committed to doing the same thing? Maybe all working for the same cause? Well, then all of a sudden at least one "line" of the service has jumped to a whole new "level" (or "altitude"), out of orange and into green or even second tier (teal or turquoise).
I don't know how the whole company share allocation thing will work, and it's probably too early to speculate since no one has actually started earning shares yet, but with a portion of the company's shareholders actually being "integrally informed", it may even be possible to influence (however slightly) the direction in which the company evolves.
Anyway, just something to think about. It probably won't change the world, but it couldn't hurt. And I mean, if you don't do something like this, the money will just go to someone else who'll most likely use it for their own selfish purposes.
Cheers,
Grey
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