Tim and Stace: Angel Investors in the Parallel Economy
I've been thinking about how I'd invest (and have, in a small way).
This assumed it's WORSE than we can possibly imagine).
Though I think it's also better and stranger.
I'd invest a relatively small sum ($10k) in many productive household enterprises. Loan the $10Ksoyou'll be sure to get your money back, but get some stock to make the big money. (Peter Thiel has $5 Billion in his Roth IRA. He invested in start up stocks)
Let's think FAANG. Facebook started in a college dorm as adating app. Apple was a garage business. Amazon moved to Seattle becaus the BIG Powell's books was there--it sold books online to start. Nature's Grocery started with a woman selling supplements to housewives. (Netflix I don't know about. Google was a couple of college guys at Stanford. Gold Bond Stamps (now Carlson Companies) started with $38 borrowed from his landlady.
THESE ARE ALL IN OUR LIFETIMES.
THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE AFRICA, WHERE MANY (THEOPOLIS FUNDAMENTALS) THINKSWILL BE THE CENTER OF CHRISTENDOM IN THIS CENTURY.
--Each prospective company would submit a business plan. You'd loan them the money and get a stock kicker)
What projects? Food (Pella area self-sufficient in vegetables, a Gardening Guide/chickens, eggs/ I was butchering 12 rabbits a week in Stuart/Portable Farms (search) aquaponics.
Clothing--there seem to be plenty in Pella, but sewing? Africa?
Shelter--notmany homeless, but 3D printed tiny homes might be something
Delco--decades ago, batteries were what farmers used when there was no rural electrification. Musk's Wall? Ted Koppel's'Lights Out' tellsof the vulnerability of the grid,and there are new solar/wind/other ideas abounding.
That's a start.
I have some books.
You could scale this through CJ Wiley (he talked to Christ the Redeemer about the productive household).
Anderson of Oskaloosa could be your computer person.
Love in King Jesus,
Chuck
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