According to the NY Times, last year, Apple's 327 global stores earned $5,647 per square foot, more than any other U.S. retailer and almost double that of the # 2 earner, Tiffany & Co. Dividing the company's total revenues by its store employees yields sales of $473,000 per worker. The average store worker makes $11.91 per hour, or about $25,000 per year. This gives you some idea of how corporations buy their employees at whoilesale and sell them at retail, (at about a 2000 % markup!)
What people need in today's ultra competitive, distracting digital environment in a time when we have gadgets and technology most generations could only ever dream about... what we need now is not the government or big corporations to create more jobs, that paradigm died with the industrial age and the advent of the information age.
What Americans need to do today in this hour of economic doubt and uneasy anxiety about the future geopolitical landscape with the Euro crashing, Iran pursuing nukes and China causing global ripples, is we need to return to what makes us great, good old fashioned American ingenuity. We need to dig deep and ask ourselves, "What am I truly passionate about?" or "What gift to I have to bring to the table to add value to others' lives?" or "How can I do what I truly love and have it earn me enough passive income to afford the lifestyle I desire?"
Everyone of us can contribute our energy to a team. When we combine the synergy of collaboration on any project, we harness an exponential increase in efficiency. Be curious. "Be open to everything and attached to nothing," as Wayne Dyer says. Have the courage to expect the best for yourself. Take a chance and bet on yourself. Believe in your dream and get started.
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back.
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one
elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and
splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then
Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would
never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the
decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and
meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would
have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”
William Murray, Himalayan Explorer
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