Oh dearie me, having been thinking these months about Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, somehow GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK slipped my mind.
How, truly, could one forget a week-long celebration of white-collar tech startups?
Perhaps a lifetime of celebrating both religious and national holidays, and the actual accomplishments of ordinary people who have overcome harrowing obstacles, has left me ill-suited to join a bacchanalia for office-dwellers looking to make their living on the taxes of ordinary working people.
There are people who truly deserve government’s help and encouragement, people whose efforts are to be assisted and encouraged. They’ve hard lives and rough hands.
Only at the end of a long list of potential recipients for public assistance could one possibly expect to find the name of a white-collar software men.
But the crony-capitalist Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, never having passed up an opportunity to present a false claim in the place of actual accomplishment, is sending along one of its leaders to speak in town.
There is this advantage, though – if you’re an Innovation Center that’s so weak that it has had to make lesser payments in lieu of its actual taxes, and is filled with with a non-tech educational agency or perhaps third-tier tech firms drawn here with public grants & loan guarantees, it’s probably ego-salvaging to say you’re part of something GLOBAL.
What’s wrong with being a small brick and mortar merchant in Whitewater, without pretending the town is on the verge of becoming the next Silicon Valley, or part of the next GLOBAL happening?
It’s better – much better – to be a real American town than a fake tech hub.
And yet, and yet, much as one rightly laughs at these pretentious celebrations, at least one can show others how they should properly be done….
Next: Let’s Go Galactic.
Previously, at FREE WHITEWATER on the WEDC:
- At WEDC-Sponsored Tech Festival, Local Company Announces a Move to Ohio
- WEDC Update (subsidizing the outsourcing of jobs to other countries)
- Local Crony Capitalism via the WEDC (and similar schemes)
- The Truth About the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation
- WEDC Board Offers Millions to Subsidize Job Cuts
- WEDC Afflicted with Internal Strife
- WEDC Claims Success by Writing Off Bad Loans