Business Course Introduction

This is an edited version of the last article. I was told to be a little gentler and more succinct.

Hello,

I am trying to kickstart a video business course for young people, in their 20s, so that they can have some kind of chance in the waning American economy. The Reagan years saw a similar uptick in young people participating in free enterprise. I have done it successfully since I was ten years old.

I want these courses to be high production and free. I am asking for donations. Here is a written article, which I will parse down to bullet points and use to make the script for the first video.

Business Course: Introduction

It is good first to go over my credentials so that you know what type of businessman I am.

I became a businessman when I was ten years old. My mother was in a relationship with a good man. He moved us away from the state in which I was born, and we moved in limousines.

The reason we were in limousines is because he wanted to start a limousine business. He wanted to start a limousine business because he had an opportunity to acquire several limousines for cheap. The reason we moved is because he wanted to flip houses. He wanted to flip houses because he had an opportunity to acquire a house which he could fix up for cheap.

The First Lesson of Business

The first lesson I want anyone to learn about business is that you only do it if you think God wants you to do it. You only do it if you see a reasonable opportunity to do it. A reasonable opportunity means that you can afford something, that thing can increase in value, and you have the capability of increasing its value. This makes money.

My stepfather worked on the house with my brothers. The limousines mostly sat, but so far as I can tell, he did not take a loss on them. He saw some other opportunities and got involved in some other businesses, quickly laying aside whatever did not profit him while throwing himself fully into whatever did profit him, before he got around to teaching me anything.

My First Business

He first taught me how to go door-to-door selling compost worms. I failed at this. The reason I failed at this is because I was ten years old and could read and write books. I had only the beginning framework of a novelist. I found it so profound that these worms ate garbage, that I only ever talked about that with potential customers, rather than the gardening application. I did not think that there were cheaper and easier ways to dispose of garbage.

Next, my stepfather gave me a book about sno-cones. I proceeded to read about the most perfect, high quality sno-cone set-up I could ever have, and then when I finished the book quickly and told him how excited I was to have expensive sno-cone equipment, he ignored that and provided me with the cheap, available cart which he had the opportunity to get. The whole point was that I could finish a task.

I ran the cart outside of a flea market with which he had gotten involved. I think it must have been profitable to him, because it took all of his focus, and me and my brothers loved it. I made sub-rate sno-cones outside of the flea market, and I made money. This was my first successful business. I spent all the money on things sold at the flea market, and I ate sno-cones every day. I also spent every day with my brothers, who ran a hot-dog cart. At a young age, I worked and made money in a free market, near a father and my brothers.

My mother and him split up. We moved to Oswego, New York, and my mother sold herbalife. She had arranged to share a booth at a local fare with a man selling rubber-band guns. I went with her, negotiated for a position selling rubber-band guns, and then she was told that she violated the fare rules because she had not paid the fee for a booth. Regulation edged her out of the market. I remained, having a position as a paid contractor, and I made money. I think I spent it all on rubber-band guns.

I ended up moving away from my mother and living in Seattle with my father. I tried to make money. I remember our school had us selling advent calendars to students for $3 a calendar to raise money for something. I sold them to the teachers for $7 a calendar, because they had the money, and I pocketed the difference, until I got in trouble for it.

My First Job

When I turned sixteen, after school every day, I walked up and down the road looking for a job, but that area is a little strict about child labor laws.

At eighteen, I got a job at a grocery store at the far end of the road, a couple miles’ walk. My first paycheck introduced me to inflation, income tax, interest rates, and insurance, because a $9.50 an hour check was reduced to probably $5 an hour, and I had no idea what was wrong with all my math. I had made money before, and it was absolutely reeling to see these paychecks after a long wait. I tried to get better jobs and promotions. I ended up at something like $12 an hour, before I finally found a network marketing group. I have nothing at all bad to say about them.

They are the ones who taught me how to get a good job, which is a bad way to make money. I ended up at $65,000 a year in Seattle, Washington at 22 years old. I would spend a portion of this on the network marketing products, and they would keep teaching me how to get better jobs. They did this with many other young men. This created a sort of funnel which drew from the wealth of that city into a small insular group of Montana boys who learned lots of things from their fathers about how to succeed in the world, who were rewarded for teaching Seattleites from broken houses basic facts about the world and how it works. We all made money together. Babylon paid for it. I am sure other network marketing ventures, especially in small towns where people already know how to live and succeed, are more like pyramid schemes. But this one I was in made money for everybody. Those guys are wonderful. I miss them. I pray for them very often.

What is Business?

Thus far for my business acumen. You can see I do not define business as whatever they teach you in business college. It’s not that at all. It is only the process of making money busily with as little expense as possible. The $65,000 a year I made in Seattle was what I made from working as an employee (although I treated it as being a contractor, and that is why I was able to make as much as I did). I understand that is not a lot of money. It does not include other incomes which I started and which still exist today. But at twenty-two years old, I was content with that, and I turned my mind away from making money and towards getting married. Now I have a wife and three children and a good solid home, wherein my sons and daughter are around me all day long, and my wife is taken care of according to her needs, and to be honest with you, I think I am only able to do that because I understand business.

America rewards business. The tax code pays you for knowing the things I know. People fear business, and so they send a lot of money to the government, and they are generally robbed all day long. I want to help fix that. That will be the focus of the rest of this course.

Please contact me if you would like to support me in any way. I desire your little time left over after paying your bills and doing your duties, when you are tired. Taurusnecrus@gmail.com. Expect a conversation, so that I might get to know you, but I will be mindful of your besieged time. You can follow me most closely at TaurusNecrus.substack.com where there are many examples of my apologetics with Muslims, Flat Earthers, Atheists, Protestants, and more.

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