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Another Governmental infrastructure that should and
must be implemented is the Native-crafts leveraging Infrastructure.
The truth of the situation is that every society has at least a
craft by which the society survives. This leveraging should
immediately empower the natives by vesting them with the profits of
economy of scale, and as such enable them to realize higher return
on investment. Every Government must develop the infrastructure to
leverage these crafts-operations into large scale operations. Two
benefits develops from such actions: additional employment positions
are immediately created to support other peoples who are not
otherwise practitioners of the craft and also for other people who
become practitioners of the craft. This actually creates division of
labor and as such brings about efficiency to the practice of the
crafts and correspondingly higher volume of production. On the part
of overall development of the society, such leveraging
infrastructure will continually result in the elevation of low-skill
workers into first tier entrepreneurs of the region. These
entrepreneur to some undefinable extent may just turn out to fund
other ventures having developed the mindset of entrepreneurs.
There really are two approaches, or infrastructure,
from the perspective of economic development, to the art of
leveraging the native-crafts: one approach has the production forces
and the marketing forces separated and fused into individual
operating units, and the second approach continues to maintain
separate production forces while fusing the marketing forces into a
different entity for efficiency of production. The first approach is
akin to the founding of corporation through mergers and
acquisitions, and the end-result of the approach may be termed as
Crafts-Based Corporations; and the second approach is
founding corporations that properly are
Cooperatives, and the end result of this approach may therefore be
termed as Crafts-Based
Cooperatives. Some insight into the art can be |
gained from a cursory
chat-room analysis of leveraging
ethanol production craft in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Yet
social welfare aspects of these approaches are worth being discussed
here as such are quite informative. First the discussion is focused
on founding the Crafts-Driven Cooperatives, and then on founding the
Crafts-Based Corporations.
Crafts-Driven Cooperatives Infrastructure as already noted has the
marketing forces of crafts businesses, separated and fused into a
different entity for efficiency of production while continuing to
maintain separate production forces. Hence the founding of such
cooperatives essentially collects the marketing forces of several
autonomous small crafts businesses and fuses these into a separate
entity thereby vesting these several small business economy of scale
for marketing the product-crafts of these businesses. This
infrastructure is particularly suited to societies with disparate
communities. Such communities may be disparate for more than one
reason: the communities are disparate geographically being forcibly
separated into small communities by the forces of geography; the
communities may be disparate ethnically being of different ethnic
origin yet have subsisted on the same crafts being proximate to each
other over the years and therefore developed similar tools of
subsistence. The assertion that this form of infrastructure better
supports the communities that are geographically disparate is
buttressed by the recognition that in general these individual
communities neither have large land masses to support the
construction of large corporations nor even large population to
support the employment needs of large corporations. On the other
hand, the assertion that this form of infrastructure better supports
the communities that are ethnically disparate is buttressed by the
recognition that in general these individual communities have
remained small because over the years they may have developed lack
of trust in each other and may have even fought several wars and as
a result being unable to fused into a union; and of course these
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communities like the geographically disparate communities also will
not have even the large population necessary to support the
employment needs of large corporations.
Crafts-Based Corporation Infrastructure as already noted has the
production forces and the marketing forces of crafts businesses,
separated and fused into individual operating units. Hence the
founding of such corporations essentially collects the production
forces and the marketing forces of several autonomous small crafts
businesses and fuses these into individual operating units. This
infrastructure is suited to societies with disparate and
non-disparate communities, but with the common characteristic of
geographical contiguity and and surrounding unoccupied large land
masses. The geographical contiguity essentially enables the pooling
of the population necessary to support large employment needs of
corporations, while the proximate unoccupied land masses avail open
regions usable for developing large corporations. The social factors
regarding the homogeneity characteristic of the community are
readily addressed through corporate policies, rules and
regulations.
In each
case, the role of the government therefore is in abstracting a
unifying construct with the singular goal of facilitating the
economic development and consequentially the social welfare of the
communities. |
