WRIT 340 dpdoyle

  SMART Person Group (SPG) We, here at SMART Person Group (SPG), recruit our members from around the globe and from all parts of society. We strongly believe that tough, world-wide challenges will only be solved by inclusive, thoughtful “global citizens”. Our current mission is to end economic suffering through personal financial responsibility. To this end, we created a SMART Person personal finance smart-phone application. SPG’s strengths are in technology, finance, and media; modern tools solving ancient problems is our motto. Like millions of Buddhists around the world, we believe that suffering is rooted in ignorance and desire . Our app revolves around addressing these two problems. First, we defeat ignorance by providing education. We reached out to celebrities and they helped us film short, but highly entertaining and memorable videos. Each video presents a single financial “hack” or life tip. We have already created 200 episodes. Some of our featured topics include:...

Hmmm, the directions for the first part of the assignment state that we're supposed to think like a "global citizen" and brainstorm some ways we can contribute to the improvement of our world. I think I'll try and apply a stream-of-consciousness approach to the blog post. Hopefully, it's easier than Joyce to understand! Allow me to start by listing some concepts that I care about:  social equity fairness truth environmental sustainability financial freedom financial education microfinance global citizenship ...and the spread of these ideals to the greatest number of people possible Wow, my thinking has really been colored by reading The Blue Sweater . I'll admit I've not finished it yet, but I'm almost done; I'll be finished by this Monday. I pick "financial education". Having a better educated and financially stable population in the United States might prevent us from electing a demagogue again. If a large enough number of people can le...