Why our motto is "Mighty are we, Group Genie"  [Continued from the Home Page]

Who knows if we will achieve the goal, but we already have three ideas that each have a potential of over half a trillion dollars a year.  We doubt if any other corporation, nonprofit, university or Nobel Prize winner on Earth can say that.  Since the entire planetary GDP was 71 trillion dollars a year in 2008,  $1.5 trillion or more a year would have a huge global impact.  

This brings us to the second meaning of our motto. People are mighty when they act  together: Mighty are we.  But most people underestimate their potential power.  Our original way of saying this is "Raindrops make rivers, and rivers move mountains."  Many people will think of this as a motivational statement.  But to us, it's a statement about reality,  closely related to the law of cause and effect.  Raindrops really do make rivers. Rivers really do move mountain-sized amounts of earth each day.  And just as our negative impacts add up (litter, political non-participation,  rainforest destruction, etc.) our positive impacts can add up (recycling, donations to tree-planting organizations, etc.)  

In our Mighty Plan, we do the numbers to show that the American electorate can be transformed into an informed, critically thinking, and active electorate in ten years, and a chain reaction of empowerment can transform 7-10 billion lives in 27 years with an extra 20-30 years for institutional changes to take place. -- We know that these estimates will seem unrealistic until you understand our powerful strategies.  For our plan to work, however, we don't assume or require that people become saintly.  That's because we believe that decent people (those with a sense of conscience, a fair amount of self interest, and perhaps even small amounts of greed) far outnumber those with no conscience and breathtaking amounts of greed.  Mighty are we.