With trust expired, what do we do next?
161-Word Story Idea
We’ve taken for granted the importance of values like fairness and trust in greasing the wheels of capitalism at our peril. The rapidly growing divide between leaders & followers and the “haves” & “have-nots” is becoming the greatest threat to prosperity. If this economic meltdown and the unraveling of Ponzi’s was played out at the box office, it would open Xmas day dressed as America’s favorite actress in a black bonnet and petticoat and a never-ending chorus of bells would be ringing. A great BW cover story would be on the importance of fairness and trust in the achievement of higher living standards, and how to amend our situation. Many agonize whether we need more regulation (so Blago or FEMA can decide what is “right”?) or simply better alignment of incentives in free markets. Instead of obsessing on ways to protect adults from risk and each other, might we find the change we are looking for by investing in our kids?
10 Story Headlines
1. Trust for Sale
2. The Broken Virtues of American Success
3. The Presumption of Trust
4. The Trust Economy
5. Trust in the Marketplace
6. I Trust You to Kill Me
7. Meritocracy’s Promise
8. Where Did The Money Go?
9. The Future of Money
10. Achieving Greatness
Who could write this story?
Business Week, Time Magazine, Newsweek, Fortune Magazine, The New York Times, Economist
I often think about what our current situation will mean for the next generation – I would love to see a cover story that talks about what tools we can give our kids to make their own way.
That’s a snappy bit of writing by mkaPR… it always comes down to the kids, or seems so. But is that a tacit acknowledgment that “adults” have botched things so bad we’ve hit the point of no return? I think kids learn a hell of a lot by example; what better time than NOW to give our kids an example of how to handle a crisis that their parents blithely walked into.