This blog is about a problem I found in England that is pervasive in heavily government managed 1st World societies.
Because I had created the Briarpatch Network in the San Francisco Bay area which regularly had 600 small businesses members (and over time many hundreds more), I was invited to Sweden, to France and to Western England to create small businesses of the Briarpatch sort.
The 600 Briarpatch small businesses members, in any particular year, employed roughly 2000 people.
I was very successful in Sweden in generating small businesses, slightly less successful in France, doing best in Lyons. But I accomplished very little in Western England.
In Western England everyone asked me to help them create jobs. Jobs?
I was faced with a hopeless task. I could not and still cannot create jobs. What I could do to help was to create small businesses which were sometimes able to create jobs. The Swedes and the French understood that and understood that an innovative society needed small businesses.
The English never understood that and still don't.
It is not possible to create jobs. It is possible to help generate small businesses. I was unable to do that in Western England because the willingness of young people to start businesses was nonexistent. They were looking for jobs.
Somehow most people in the world do not understand that jobs come after businesses are created not before.