2 Steps

Two steps you can take to increase the likelihood that Congress and the president support the build-out of the CE industry:

  1. join this Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=274601931764
  2. invite your friends to join

Fun with math: If you join the group and invite ten friends, and they join and invite ten friends, and this sequence is repeated six times, the group will have 1,000,000 members!

Your performance of said steps, then, can lead to:

  1. me working hard to alert (other) bloggers to the group’s growing popularity
  2. bloggers learning from this site that they can benefit in several ways from the rise of the CE industry
  3. bloggers encouraging their readers to join the group and invite friends
  4. print and TV journalists picking up the story
  5. media conglomerates and entrepreneurs introducing said markets (and complements)
  6. Congress and the president putting their fingers to the wind :-)

Fair warning: lest I be accused of hiding costs associated with the rise of the CE industry, we (future) parents must reconcile ourselves to the following:

CE consumption by our children is likely to lead to them becoming very hopped up on intrinsic motivation, eager learning, creative problem-solving, etc.

Needless to say, this portends an epidemic of children crafting ever more convincing arguments for raises of allowance.

In particular, we must steel ourselves for an epidemic of grade-schoolers:

  1. scheduling a pre-bedtime meeting to present their case
  2. attending the meeting in attire that blends “business formal” and (footsie) pajamas
  3. arguing their case with the help of homespun statistics (e.g., that dramatically overstate inflation)
  4. exasperating bodily in response to the old jokes we reuse at every such meeting (e.g., child: “As you know, we’ve convened to discuss a raise of allowance.”, parent: “Great. How much do I get?”; child: “I think an increase of $x is fair.”, parent: “Well, if that is all you can afford.”)

Abandon all hope of fiscal restraint, ye parents who enter into these negotiations. :-)

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    (Have pics that fit this theme and feature babies who are Asian, Hispanic, Indian, etc.? Want, as I do, to see more diversity celebrated here? Please send to Frank at OpportuniTV dot com. Thanks kindly.)