If you could start a new business right now, what would it be?
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My hypothetical business would be selling baby formula that costs less than a circa-2019 monthly mortgage payment. It would be the exact same ingredients as the best formula available, it would pass all the FDA approvals, and it wouldn’t create gas pain in the babies. It would be a dream come true, a life-saver, a diamond in the rough!
I do have a hypothesis about this hypothetical humanitarian business effort of mine: It would be wildly successful, I wouldn’t be able to keep the shelves stocked, and I would eventually find myself at the bottom of a high-rise building having “fallen off the edge of the balcony.”
“Why is it that such a need is priced out of so many people’s budget?” she asked rhetorically. While I’m at it, I think I’ll start a side hustle of opening a hospital that offers affordable healthcare. Better yet, I’ll include within it a medical school that teaches in-depth and passionately about women’s health, with a division dedicated specifically to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum. It won’t be free! It’ll still be a business! But I’m charging pennies on the dollar since everyone on Earth will want to patronize this company of mine. Everyone except…
The Powers that Be wouldn’t be thrilled about my venture, but I have something in it for them, too. I’ll siphon $1 per customer their way. With nearly 7 billion people coming through my doors, that’s a nice payday for them, I think! Except…
It’s never really enough for these billionaires in power. We think it’s about money, but it’s really about control. Or is it about something else entirely? We The People have no clue what’s going on in their closed-door conversations, and it’s tiring to even speculate. But it IS entertaining, in a morbid way. I’m reading a book right now called Phenomena, by Annie Jacobsen. This book details the US Government’s exploration into and employment of people with ESP, Psychokinesis, and other psychic abilities like remote viewing and divination. These are concepts being talked about more among civilians today, but are still on the fringe side of beliefs; governments around the world, however, have been dabbling in this stuff since at least the 1940’s. It’s been almost 100 years. Just imagine what’s really being discussed among them today. If we’ve heard about it, we’re more than a few decades behind.
I feel strongly about the treatment of women since I had my baby. It’s wild to fathom how misunderstood women’s health is. Not only that, but my conspiratorial mind wonders about the fundamental groundwork laid to make sure the masses remain in the dark about it. The unbelievable physical and mental strength women need to have to carry a baby and endure the symptoms of pregnancy through a full-time job; the willpower it takes to survive the delivery, medicated or not; the absolute marathon the body and mind run while healing and dealing with postpartum injuries, hormones, and outside influences. All of these legitimately need to be studied. The amount of actual research done on any of this, let alone basic women’s health and how it differs from men’s, is so disparate that it makes you wonder–how did we get this far without this being discussed seriously in the medical world, unless it was done on purpose?
So, I want baby formula to cost less. From someone who’s doing her best with breastfeeding, pumping, bottle feeding, and formula feeding, and taking care of and raising and loving her baby, and dealing with postpartum fallout, and working with a new budget for the household, and making sure the relationships around her stay strong through it all, it would be really great if we could have that one thing. Thanks.
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