Small Companies To Invest InCapitalism and free market has dominated today’s world. 80% of the money is accessed by a handful of multinational companies run by few business tycoons. Global market has not touched the lives of majority of people who are sidelined by the mainstream economy. The haves are getting richer and the haves-not poorer. As the gap between the rich and the poor increases, it creates a considerable danger of the poor, who are the majority, revolting against the prevalent bias and overthrowing the established system to create a state of equality. To reduce this danger, the rich has created social organizations and non-profits- the World Banks, Aid agencies, and INGO’s-, which are being used as tranquilizers, to temporarily sooth the poor and elongate the prevalent system of bias. This cannot continue for long, and its failing mechanism is well demonstrated by the increasing rates of poverty and hunger around the world despite technological and economic advances. What we need is a way through which we can reach to the real poor directly and bring them in the mainstream market by making each of them entrepreneurs. This can be done by investing in small companies run by the farmers, peasants, and laborers, the profits from whose don’t go to the “Swiss Bank accounts” of the richest.

A microcredit firm like Grameen Bank can be a perfect small companies where investment can be done. Institution like Grameen serve to the poor directly and meet their small scale needs not addressed by the prevalent financial organizations and commercial banks. The system of Grameen is customized according to the requirements of the poor and the benefits goes in the hands of the poor themselves as it is a 95% borrower’s owned business. Grameen is an example of an emerging field of “Social Business” which is a solution proposed by Nobel Prize Laureate and the Founder of Grameen- Prof. Mohammad Yunus. Social businesses will not be profit oriented as normal PMB’s(Profit Maximizing Businesses) but it will work towards being self-sustaining and not depending upon external aids contrary to the Non-profits. This opens the door to a whole new range of small companies to invest in that can be established to serve the poorest. Few examples can be- A farmers market run by the farmer’s themselves, a food company to provide high nutrition diet to the poor in cheap prices by cutting the costs spent in packaging and marketing and packaging, the projects (mini-hydropower ) in the rural villages where the cost of supply of the required technology can recouped in subsequent years by charging minimal rates for power usage, a construction company that uses locals as laborers for building bridges and roads to connect rural places, where the investment is recouped by collecting tolls from large scale traders for using the infrastructure.