Social Welfare

I believe the Health and Wellness Industry is the “gold rush” of the millennium. Let’s venture back into history and establish a basis that leads to this conclusion. We won’t go too far back, but let’s look at the days when almost everyone was tied directly or indirectly to the land.

Most people had their little plot of land where they grew their own food and toiled out their being. They worked for themselves, and their health was usually good because they ate (what we call today) organic food. However, a time came when families wanted variety and they developed a simple barter and cash system. This way I could trade some of my peas for some of your cotton. If we couldn’t trade, I would sell my goods for cash to buy what I needed. This system allowed everyone to enjoy the basics of life.

People always want more. Even more so they wanted it fast. So inventors and entrepreneurs heeded the call thus bringing about the “Industrial Revolution.” Great industrial complexes started to develop. People stopped growing their own food. Produce became product as Agribusiness developed and began to genetically modify most foods. People stopped making their own clothes and started buying manufactured clothing. Grocery stores and malls emerged and mass production became the way of the day.

Soon people needed to get jobs in order to participate in the new way of life. They started to leave their homesteads and cluster into cities. The big Industrial complexes provided jobs, because they needed help in order to meet the great new consumer demand.

Actually people came from an environment of self sufficiency to a system of working for someone else. This became known as the “Job Market.” The system thrived and people became more and more dependent on it, until one day the bubble burst. There was a depression and there were no jobs and no money. People seemed to have lost their survival skills; they no longer knew how to make the land provide for them. Read the rest of this entry »