Free Enterprise and why I love Google
It is amazing to me: unprecedented; my friend and contractor is a 21 year old girl in the Philippines. I met her looking for someone to do some work for us when launching a new website. I was touched by her purity, her humility, her willingness to work and to learn – without even knowing her age, or where she was from at first.
The relationship that has evolved as I have begun to teach her what I know about what I do and to give her some work (she was so inexpensive I convinced her to raise he prices) has touched my heart and warmed my very soul.
Why do I love Google, and the open-source movement in general? Because it has made this cherished connection possible. Just think about how much our lives have changed, and will continue to change with this technology:
- Everyone can get ‘in the game’ – it is no longer who you know, or even where you are or what you have: it is what you have to offer that matters now.
- Nobody controls distribution – everyone can get an audience – true, unfettered free enterprise on a level playing field
- Everyone can communicate with everyone else – just think about the ramifications of that statement when it comes to politics, religion, philosophy, art, science, commerce and our culture in general!
Perhaps it is because I was an orphan myself at age 11 that this touches me so much: I had to rise above humble beginnings, and a broken back at 23, and many other challenges: but this girl, Mari Mae Perez is from another province, an ocean away, with a language barrier and culture gap to deal with : she has taught herself PHP and My Sequel programming, Internet marketing, SEO – it is because she reached out to find work that she found me!
How inspiring is that? It is during my darkest hours that my angels who have followed me around all my life in spite of all of my mistakes have reached out to me with such examples and acquaintances to make me aware of the possible and brave enough to move forward in spite of my fears – and now, with this technology, we can all be available to each other thus.
I encourage you to join me in the pleasurable endeavor of being inspired by and employing my favorite worker Mari Mae Perez.
May God bless you all as I have been blessed.
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