Sábado, Abril 07, 2007

open border anarchism

two business ideas:

1. private protest: for a decent living wage of $13/hour cash brokeass college students and jornaderos will be contracted to hold up a sign and quietly pace back in forth in front of the object of protest, holding the sign for all to see. the protest company will employ a sign designer and a person to negotiate contracts with protest mécènes. a third employee, in some versions of the business model, will accept payments from objects of protest to call off protests.

2. practical joke arbitrage: every week, a new entry of "it'd be funny if this would happen:" is posted. the funny thing would have a price tag, what it would cost to cause it to happen. people are then solicited to pledge, say, $10 each to cause the event to happen. there is a number of pledges below which the event does not happen. above this number, the event will happen for $10 or less per person. advertising revenues from the site could be reinvested.

exempli gratia: a full page classified in the Economist, (24 300 pounds sterling) is taken out to advertise Girls Gone Wild or a job opening for a dishwasher position at a Denny's in Cour d'Alene, Idaho. if 5000 people agree that they'd pay $10 to see that, we're in business.

altrius exempli gratia: the joke company has a working relationship with the protest company so that the protest company will have the occasional guaranteed contract and the joke company will have an idea for a relatively cheap joke.