Investing in Social Profit

Beyond the artistic endeavors that I offer, I want my legacy to be about how those endeavors are used. Although I haven’t made a whole lot of money off of being an artist so far in my life, I have made some, and for any money that I make through endeavors to come, I want to use that economic energy efficiently and effectively.

Whether I generate revenue from sales of my books or songs, poetry or other words I write, by performing comedy or music, educating or entertaining, I want to channel the economic energy I create along the same lines I used to create my best life on a personal level. Just as I cultivate good health in my emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual lives, so do I want what I create to affect the world.

And so I do address and reward the artists that contribute to the beauty of my life, the services I receive through other businesses, the engagement of my citizenry that contributes to the world I live in, and the community I help develop as I contribute to it.

And as much as I’d love to be known for any of what I do as an artist, my greater desire is to promote the idea of ABC Squared Economics, and the balanced cultivation of Artistry, Business, Citizenry, and Community. So perhaps my goal, or at least one of them, is to connect with people who can build the technology to support it.

I think I’ve done a fairly good job of channeling the money that I’ve made since I started using it again. Granted, I haven’t become an avid user of money in the last decade, but I did…