This meeting will discuss a program, called Blakeonomics, that uses a new systemic participation method of teaching, learning and training the poor and homeless how to create wealth and eliminate poverty by becoming producers and owners of the means to create wealth. They do so by sharing in and becoming the owners of the stores and businesses in which they shop, thereby taking control of their means to create wealth and eliminate poverty.
In this way it is possible to challenge the systems of inequality and urban poverty that prey on the disadvantaged poor through high-priced convenience stores, payday loans, rent-a-centers, buy-here-pay-here car lots, and other types of predatory lending.
Our current economic system is not designed to create wealth for the poor but to sustain the wealth of the wealthy. But Blakeonomics is not designed to encourage the needy to become greedy. Blakeonomics is designed to be inclusive and is centered around the principle and belief that love is an essential part of the economic ecosystem. By working together, the poor can create and share wealth with all who participate.