Kyle Q. Lepage

Issues are our opportunities. Our advancements address issues, whether they be deficiencies — recognised or unrecognised, problems, or conflicts. We make progress by successfully facing issues, and hence, knowledge regarding issues is valuable. By collectively acting on information provided by individuals regarding issues, increased societal wealth can be had.

By using this wealth to fairly compensate individuals for the knowledge they provide — the knowledge that enables this increase in wealth — a positive cycle can be started. This cycle progresses as follows: in step (i) increased knowledge is acquired. In step (ii), this knowledge is sold or used to earn wealth.

The Profit for People cycle promotes the formation of non-traditional, symbiotic relationships. It draws people together through shared issues, collective action and fairly shared profit. It groups together four types of people: those who have issues, those who have knowledge regarding them, those who have the knowledge of how to address them, and those who have the means to address them.

This grouping ignores gender, race, age, qualification, and nationality. The interaction between these groups in the Profit for People cycle promotes the formation of non-traditional relationships that are mutually beneficial.

The quality of life of an individual depends most upon the quality of the people with which they interact. In North American culture, and to some degree or another the entire world, competition is common place. For example, competition exists for jobs, between businesses for clients, for positions in educational programs, and for spots on sports teams.

The prevalence of this competition, along with a perceived difference between the goals of an individual and that of the government, often lead to the perception that one’s wealth is generated mostly by one’s own actions, and is largely achieved at the expense of someone else. This promotes a dangerous form of individualism; one where the benefit of society as a whole is of reduced importance. Individuals seeking advantage at your own expense do not make good neighbours.

The persistence of a group through time necessitates that the group find value in its defining characteristics. In extreme cases, this leads to negative outcomes associated with nationalism, sexism, and racism. In less extreme cases, this leads to club-privilege and nepotism. At the heart of the matter lies the management of competition between groups. By forming mutually-beneficial relationships between non-traditional groups, the Profit for People cycle demonstrates the value of inclusiveness.

Representational democracy is burdened with a number of economic, political, and social forces which make efficient GDP production difficult.

Among these forces are aggregation of representation over diverse industries, geographic regions, and demographics. This, combined with a multitude of factors hinders efficient, top-down legislation which, in turn, hinders effective executive government action. Issues affecting dynamically changing groups of people that are not accurately labeled by constituency and region may be best addressed by actions taken by a flexible, grass-roots organisation.

We currently have the technological means of reaching most people in the world. By engaging with the Profit for People cycle, we can form issue-specific groups comprised of members from the affected industries, geographic regions, and demographics.

The Profit for People cycle profits people in four ways. First, people profit through actions taken to address issues. Second, people profit from the wealth generated by these actions. Third, people profit from fair compensation for the knowledge they provide.

Many thanks go to Liam Wilkinson and Sam Seshadri for thoughtful discussion, comments and editing. All errors, inadequacies, misconceptions, etc. are solely due to the efforts of the author, and are the author’s responsibility.

Sincerely,
Kyle Q. Lepage, PhD
Profit for People, CEO & Founder