I have been suggesting this for the last 10 years or so and it seems that no one wants to talk about it. there are also the excuses that it is someone elses problem, they are too broke, etc. I have suggested having a number of people invest in a firm, assign a voting proxy and force the issue at the stockholder's meetings. so far, all I get is a room full of crickets. 10 years harping the same message and no one seems to bother.
an accessibility tax would also work (think of it like the RIAA tax on audio tapes all those years ago). unfortunately, you mention taxes to the general public, even when said tax is in their own best interest and you will have such an outcry that the matter will get dropped like a red hot potato. that is the state of affairs that we are under these days. perhaps we need to form a core group and lead by example. -eric On Apr 30, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Paul Hunt wrote: > Hello Sean. This is a great idea and I would be interested in discussing it > further. I had thought that we could impose an accessibility tax to be levied > on everyone who buys a piece of electronic equipment. The money could be put > into a fund and grants be given to companies that agree to develop accessible > stuff to defray their R&D costs. Your idea is much more proactive. > I just wonder how to make this happen?On Apr 30, 2012, at 5:05 AM, Sean > Murphy wrote: > >> All. >> >> I would raise a different slant on the whole discussion. No one took this up >> before in one of my prior posts. This is a concept and please treat it as an >> idea. If people want to discuss this off line to see if it could be actually >> adopted. Then please let me know. I am more then happy to discuss. >> >> >> A we all know Business only cares about the bottom line. Since this is the >> situation. A solution to our problems is to become investors. So how can we >> as a group become investors? Being individual investor will not have the >> same impact as if we do it as a group. Let me put up some figures. >> >> If 10 million people in the USA put $10.00 into a investment fund per month. >> This would give the group $100000000.00 per month or 1.2 billion a year. If >> you extend this to a international level and got another 20 million people. >> Then the yearly amount grows to 3.6 billion dollars a year. >> Having this type of yearly funds for investing into companies. Their >> attitudes towards accessibility or what I would prefer to say Universal >> design will quickly change. Since this type of money could place the fund >> managers who ever they are on boards of companies due to amount of shares >> held by the investment fund. >> >> Basically what I have outlined is a different approach of changing peoples >> attitude by playing the same game. I believe there is at least 10 million or >> more people world wide that could afford $10.00 per month. Of course there >> are those who cannot. But they would benefit anyway. Before you shoot the >> idea down. Stop and think about if we had as a community this type of money. >> What changes could be done. The fund could be open to anyone who wants to >> help. It could even be open to all disabilities. That makes the numbers >> bigger and making the pool of investment larger. Investing into proactive >> companies like Apple would ensure they continue doing there good job. >> Informing companies like publishers that we will invest x million per month >> over the next x months if I believe would quickly change their attitude. >> >> So take off the blinkers everyone and see what this idea could do to change >> the world of technology? >> >> Ideas or comments are more then welcomed. >> >> >> Sean >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
