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Hello!!I am in the process of creating a story I've been working on for 3 years now-but there's always one thing that I've been stuck on since I've started the story-its a sci-fi one,and the planet it takes place on is a melting pot of different species of humanoid creatures,and the main cast are seniors at a school on said planet.How do you think a social ladder would work?the aliens ranging from basically human to big goat-esq beasts with converse on,who would be most popular in that setting?

Werew: This depends on so many factors that we don’t know about, so we probably can’t give a very good answer. Some things that might influence this:

- What race was there first? What race is the greatest part of the population?

- Do some races have things about them that others find distasteful, cannot relate to, etc? Xenophobia might make some species into “outcasts” essentially because of racism and people disliking or not understanding their race

- Do some races naturally get on better with others, creating “social alliances” that other races might be excluded from?

- Are some races physically, socially, mentally, stronger than others? How do they use this power? Does this make them liked, hated, feared?

Another thing to keep in mind: If some races are a minority or have not been part of the community for as long, how good or bad are the accommodations made for them? Do larger races have trouble fitting through all the doors, or is the society pretty good about making buildings big enough for them? Are races that have toxicity problems with other races or their stuff accommodated for, or do they have to go around being really careful? (I’m thinking specifically about one race being extremely allergic to another’s main food staple, but there are lots of situations where this could apply. Think of all the things that humans can be deathly allergic to, and we’re just one species!)

Also think about how concrete you want this social ladder to be. Do you want your characters to be able to transcend it without too much trouble, or is their struggle against the institutions holding them in place a large part of the story?

Constablewrites: I think the size of the school is going to be a big factor. I went to a very large high school, and I can tell you that the social dynamics bore little resemblance to any depiction I’ve seen in media.

In a large school, “popularity” is a weird concept because even the person with the very most friends and extracurriculars has never met half their class and never will. The ones who tend to be thought of as the popular kids are primarily the most visible; basically, if you were to grab a random sampling of students and ask them to match names to faces, the “popular” kids are the ones most people would get right, even if they’d never interacted with them directly. So things like sports, performing arts, and student government would get your name on the announcements and on the loudspeaker at events people were attending. Kids who did more stuff tended to be part of more circles and thus had a larger social group overall.

Also, the social structure inside a school usually reflects the state of the community that feeds into it. A family who is well-connected and influential is going to have a kid who is similarly well-connected and influential on campus. At my school, the “popular” kids all went to church together, so their relationships on campus were built on a social network entirely separate from school.

But I keep putting “popular” in quotes because of that half of the class who never even met the so-called popular kids. Once you get beyond the size where everyone knows everyone, people splinter off into cliques and sub-groups, frequently based on the way you spend your time at school. So the most popular kid among the band geeks is probably going to have little interaction with the most popular kid in the auto shop, but that’s not going to have much impact on their day-to-day socializing. (Meaning, the band kid isn’t gonna care that auto shop kid doesn’t know he exists, because he’s got plenty to deal with in his own domain.)

So in my experience, there’s not a single ladder, like a set hierarchy that everyone has their place in. It’s not like the choir kids somehow outranked JROTC on some objective scale. You generally make friends and deal with rivals among the people you interact with daily, and no one else really matters that much.

Werew: Having come from a not-all-that-big high school (but not small either; my graduating class was about 250) I agree with what constablewrites is saying here. 250 is few enough that I knew by name and had had interactions with pretty much everyone in my class, but popularity was still a highly unmeasurable thing. There are some students who are highly visible and are generally nice people, and thus most people like; there are complete unknowns like myself and my friends who weren’t popular and didn’t know or care what was going on with those who were.

And there were very much social circles. The theatre kids didn’t care very much what the sports kids were doing (unless they ran in both circles) and vice versa. Immediate-circle popularity was definitely a thing, but didn’t tend to matter whatsoever outside of those circles.

Bina: To help determine popularity on a larger scale, think about these two things in tandem: (a), what traits are valued or disliked the most in general, and (b), which races have those traits? If these traits are cosmetic (high schoolers can be pretty vain, unless this school you mentioned is a college), then various creatures will fall into a pretty well-defined scale according to who sets the beauty standard (this “who” might be a popular one). If the traits are based on physical performance, then the line blurs, but some creatures might stand out as being excellent at, say, school sports, and those individuals might reap the benefits of popularity within the sports clique. Note that I say individuals, because if everyone in the setting is completely used to being around alien creatures to the point that they’re as mundane as everyone else, then the individual’s personality can matter more than their race.

Disclaimer, not to say that each race is without their stereotypes and positive/negative connotations, but in general, if aliens are a common sight, then people might get used to differentiating between them beyond “Xolob is a BigGoatMan and therefore we don’t like him” and such and such. Unless for some reason people just REALLY don’t like a particular race and aren’t willing to give any individual a chance.

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"A lethal failure of oversight, like at Grenfell Tower, was going to happen sooner or later"

The devastating fire at London's Grenfell Tower has highlighted the widespread neglect of the UK's residential high-rises, and the undeserved contempt held for the people that live in them, says Owen Hatherley.

This column was going to be about the election of a left-wing architectural historian and housing campaigner as Member of Parliament for Kensington in the UK's general election. Emma Dent Coad, whose academic work focuses on 20th century Spanish architecture, and who has campaigned on the disputed "regeneration" of council estates, won a seat which ranges from head-spinningly expensive real estate in South Kensington – much of it empty, sat on as investments or weekend retreats – to densely inhabited council estates in Ladbroke Grove which are, as she has pointed out, 'as poor as the Gorbals'.

But a lot has changed in the last three days. Now the other Kensington is on every newspaper front page. Each carries a photograph of Grenfell Tower, one of its high-rise tower blocks, engulfed in flames.

A read of Dent Coad's blog, which she has been running since 2010, will find dozens of stories about what residents of social housing in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea have had to put up with. The list includes faulty repairs, appalling construction quality in new developments, poor estate management, unsafe practices and, to use the gross term used by councils and developers, "decanting" from their homes – which sit, after all, on some of the most valuable land on the planet – into often far-flung estates, often in other cities.

Much of the blog has been devoted to Wornington Green, the estate that has been redeveloped into the public-private Portobello Square development. But you can find similar stories in the blog kept by residents of Grenfell Tower, which has spent four years documenting power surges, piles of rubbish, and harassment.

"The Grenfell Action Group believes", they wrote last November, "that only a catastrophic event will expose the ineptitude and incompetence of our landlord". Well, here we are. Many local people, interviewed and reprimanded for their swearing on the television news, have been firm about what they blame. "These people died because they were poor," as rapper and poet Akala put it.

It looks very plausible that contractors took major liberties in installing the cladding as, after all, it's only a council tower block, right?

To even begin to understand why there is this level of distrust, you have to know a little about the labyrinthine way that social housing is currently owned, procured and renovated. Increasingly little council housing is actually operated directly by councils themselves. Much of it has been given to Housing Associations, charitable bodies who build both market and social housing, who don't make a profit, but have been known for paying their executives six-figure salaries.

In many places, including Kensington, council stock is operated by Arms Length Management Organisations, and Tenant Management Organisations, which are in theory run by residents, but in practice are as often out of touch as any hostile council or Housing Association. When it comes to renovating buildings, councils have essentially been forced to abide by Design and Build contracts, and to use "best value', where they're legally forced into favouring third-rate design and construction. Contractors then sub-contract, causing a race to the bottom that is immediately visible in the cheap and tacky signs, fences, benches and cladding, frequently attached to buildings that were often once of a superior quality than their renovations suggest.

Although the inquiry will likely last years, the over-cladding of the Grenfell Tower has so far gotten most of the blame for the fire. Most expert assessments have spotted how it caught fire with terrifying speed, spreading right up the block in seconds, making the usual – and usually successful – advice that residents stay in their homes far more dangerous than in a normal fire.

Re-cladding of council towers shouldn't be controversial – many were re-clad in the last Labour government's Decent Homes programme. Most of the time it's done for thermal reasons, to lessen damp and cold, although in the 80s and 90s there was a certain amount of inept prettification too.

At Grenfell Tower it looks very plausible that contractors took major liberties in installing the cladding as, after all, it's only a council tower block, right? Given the British construction industry's widely reported blacklisting of trade unionists, who might be likely to raise safety concerns, a lethal failure of oversight like this was going to happen, sooner or later.

Undoubtedly, the Conservative government bears ultimate responsibility

Undoubtedly, the Conservative government bears ultimate responsibility, if not for the fire itself, then at the very least for the climate in which it happened. The recommendations of an inquiry into the last major high-rise fire, at Lakanal House, Camberwell, in 2009, were sat on by the housing minister – one Gavin Barwell, who lost his seat in the election and is now Theresa May's chief of staff.

Furthermore, the government's recent Housing and Planning Bill classes estates as "brownfield", a designation previously limited to industrial wasteland. And in areas of "high value", such as Kensington, councils are legislatively encouraged to sell their housing stock.

However Labour councils have their share of blame too. Many of the examples in the Grenfell Tower blog, of the council and the Tenants Management Organisation ignoring complaints and harassing complainers, will sound familiar to residents of currently endangered estates such as the Aylesbury in Southwark, or Cressingham Gardens and Central Hill in Lambeth.

Ideas for "regenerating" estates from too many Labour councils, and from too many architects and planners, hinge on using estates and the people who live in them as bargaining chips. A tower is demolished to make way for a new private tower (usually super-expensive, hence making the whole area more expensive, hence increasing housing need) to "cross-fund" another to be built there. Tacitly, many councils have decided their role is not to build and maintain social housing and social services, but to work as municipal marketing companies, encouraging "investment" into their areas to bring richer people into them.

Council-estate youth deserve to be treated like human beings with a right to housing

Somehow, this doesn't make residents less poor, though it may stop them being residents. "Trickle-up", Emma Dent Coad calls it.

In the 1990s, politicians rebranded poverty as "social exclusion". They said that what was wrong with estates was that the people who lived in them were confined to their own class and their own place. The best thing was for them to be made to "mix" with wealthier residents, which people in Ladbroke Grove have done for some decades now.

But as has been obvious in their response over the last few days, estate residents are not socially excluded – they are social. They don't need to be "mixed" into "mixed tenure" or "mixed developments", they already are mixed. Newspapers have called council-estate youth "feral", but they've proven to be vastly more civilised and decent human beings than tabloid editors. What they deserve is to be treated like human beings with a right to housing, rather than as the soon-to-be decanted residue of an embarrassing social mistake, when we once thought that the provision of decent mass housing for all was the business of our elected governments.

A decent first step, as Jeremy Corbyn among others has suggested, would be a little bit of redistribution – the requisitioning of the borough's many empty homes to house some of the hundreds of people made homeless, and whose friends and family have been killed, by greed and negligence.

Owen Hatherley is a critic and author, focusing on architecture, politics and culture. His books include Militant Modernism (2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (2010), A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain (2012) and The Ministry of Nostalgia (2016).

Photograph is by Sarflondondunc.

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How to Turn Your Business Venture into an Admired Brand

Every week as SmallBizLady, I conduct interviews with experts on my Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. The show takes place every Wednesday on Twitter from 8-9 pm ET. This is excerpted from my recent interview with Fabian Geyrhalter. He is a renowned Brand Strategist and the Founder and Principal of FINIEN. He is the author of Bigger Than This. For more info: www.finien.com.

SmallBizlady: HOW DO YOU DEFINE BRAND?

Fabian Geyrhalter: A brand is a company (service, product or person) with soul that is attractive and smart. Soul is key to this. If you are solely selling in order to seize a financial opportunity your company will likely not turn into a brand. Heart and soul creates connection and it’s how you change from transaction to an interaction with your audience. It turns into a relationship. That’s what branding means to me.

SMALLBIZLADY: DOES A BRAND HAVE TO OFFER A RADICALLY NEW AND UNIQUE PRODUCT TO SPARK INTEREST AMONG CONSUMERS?

Fabian Geyrhalter: Given today’s world filled with hot startups that are fueled by tech innovation and are disrupting one segment after the next, the surprising answer is: No

SMALLBIZLADY: HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A COMPANY THAT MANUFACTURES MUNDANE COMMODITY PRODUCTS, LIKE STAPLERS OR SOCKS, TO FEEL “SPECIAL” TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC?

Fabian Geyrhalter: These commodity companies that quickly turn into beloved brands all realized that they need to find a story that is bigger than their offering. In my new book “Bigger Than This” I analyzed that all of these ventures lead with branding rather than product. By using empathy with their audience, they found ways to tell bigger stories that immediately resonated with their new audiences.

SMALLBIZLADY: WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO LAUNCH A BRAND IN TODAY’S AGE? HOW DO YOU TURN ANY VENTURE INTO A BRAND IN 2018?

Fabian Geyrhalter: It takes either disruptive innovation or brilliant brand thinking. If you lack innovation, which many companies do, you have to carefully align your offering with a specific audience and around shared values. The traits are story, belief, cause, heritage, delight, transparency, solidarity and individuality. If one or more of these speak to you and your brand’s story, then wholeheartedly start to act upon it and infuse it into everything you say and do.

SMALLBIZLADY: Do I have to have some sort of official certification to do business with the government?

Fabian Geyrhalter: No, one does not require a certification to be a government contractor. But a person or company MUST be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) web site. This is a totally free government registration. A company’s SAM profile (at SAM.gov) has legal statements regarding they type, size and location of the business. A separate, free and optional registration The Small Business Administration (SBA)

SMALLBIZLADY: HOW DO YOU GO ABOUT CREATING A BRAND? HOW IS A NAME AND AN IDENTITY CRAFTED?

Fabian Geyrhalter: It really is half science, half art. And emotional intelligence combined with experience, that obviously helps too. Before I start to even think about a name or a visual design language, I lead an one-day workshop intensive with the company. The AND?DNA is the search for something that is not necessarily inherent in the DNA of their offering but in the DNA of a carefully crafted and authentic brand story, which I derive together with the founders that day. When they introduce their products to consumers, the natural question anyone would ask is, “And?” – as in, “And why should I buy these very basic shoes?” Great brands can answer the “And?” question.

SMALLBIZLADY: WHAT BRANDS CONSISTENTLY IMPRESS YOU THROUGH A BRAND MARKETING LENS?

Fabian Geyrhalter: Planet Fitness for excluding the many to gain the few with their “Judgement Free Zone” fitness centers approx. over 6M members. Fishpeople Seafood for putting “people back in seafood” making the journey of where your food comes from transparent and engaging. Everlane, for their radical transparency going as far as shaving off $25 of their bestselling product overnight, citing lower production costs. These are all remarkable, and consistent, brand moves.

SMALLBIZLADY: YOUR CONSULTANCY’S WORK HAS MAINLY BEEN WITH SILICON VALLEY STARTUPS AND FORTUNE 500S. HOW DID YOU GET FASCINATED WITH STARTUP COMMODITY BRANDS?

Fabian Geyrhalter: Now that is a great question as it really sounds downside up. Well, it is “easy” to craft a brand around an exciting new product or a service that piggy-backs on a Fortune 500’s brand legacy, but one day I realized that some really hot new startup companies, famously TOMs with their 1-for-1-movement, are actually based on complete commodity products, so I set out to find more brands that have mundane products but through great brand strategy launched to near-immediate fame.

It’s fascinating to me, on many levels. If these brands can make it, just imagine how anyone can benefit using their successful brand traits.

SMALLBIZLADY: WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT, A GREAT PRODUCT OR A GREAT STORY?

Fabian Geyrhalter: A great product. You cannot rise to fame with a sub-par product in 2018, but you can with a normal, mundane product coupled with a great brand story.

SMALLBIZLADY: HOW HAS BRANDING CHANGED OVER THE PAST FEW DECADES? WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?

Fabian Geyrhalter: Branding changed from being advertising-based to being human-based. When I started writing this book on the Saturday before Halloween and it came to me that dressing up for Halloween is a great analogy for how many educated consumers see branding: a fake persona is crafted to evoke emotions from a specific audience in order to achieve a predetermined goal. It sounds as calculated as it in fact can be, but this approach is on its way out. Brands are being forced to leave the costumes to humans during Halloween.

Instead they opt for complete transparency and engaging, open conversations because of the rise of social media and the birth of a generation ready to participate, as long as the brand’s approach is inclusive and amicable. We will see this trend of empathetic branding continue on, and we’ll see Fortune 500s struggle to adapt to that new era.

SMALLBIZLADY: IF AN ENTREPRENEUR PICKS UP YOUR BOOK AND FOLLOWS ITS ADVICE, ARE THEY GUARANTEED TO TURN THEIR BUSINESS INTO A BRAND?

Fabian Geyrhalter: If they have a well manufactured product, or a good service – again, it doesn’t need to be anything innovative – and they are open to transforming into a story-based brand, this book will definitely provide them with all the inspiration necessary to turn into a true brand.

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How Blockchain Can Eradicate Poverty in Third-World Countries

At the risk of sounding like an aspiring contestant in a beauty pageant, for the first time in our history, eradicating poverty in third-world countries may be within our reach. That isn’t just another vapid response to an aging judge on a panel, but a real, obtainable, and possible scenario for our world. Blockchain can eradicate poverty in third-world countries.

Contemplating the problems in developing countries, of course, is overwhelming, and the enormity of the task undeniable. Flood, famine, disease, poverty, conflict, corruption, scarcity of basic resources like running water and electricity… It’s an interminable list of issues that no one’s had the ability to tackle yet–or perhaps not the means.

Enter Blockchain

There’s a growing camp of naysayers that enjoy slinging mud in the faces of bright-eyed hopefuls touting the benefits of blockchain for all our woes. And to a certain extent, they have a point. Marketing for blockchain has been on steroids lately, so when the many ideas promised on white papers fail to come to light, disillusionment sets in.

But remember that it’s still early days for blockchain. The internet was scoffed at too, at first, and now we can’t contemplate life without it. Drone technology was considered expensive and unnecessary–now it’s solving real-world problems.

Of course, when anything is overhyped, that leaves it open to attack from critics scouring for its vulnerabilities. Instead of enjoying a stroll along the boulevards of Paris in the springtime, many a tourist leaves the French capital wondering why the Mona Lisa is so small. The same is happening to the blockchain.

“We’ve reached the peak of inflated expectations,” explains Shaan Mulchandani, Head of Security at Aricent. But blockchain is moving in the right direction… whether it’s walking more slowly than people expected it to or not. And blockchain can eradicate poverty in third-world countries, in more ways than one.

Allowing for Financial Inclusion

One of the greatest barriers to bridging the gap between the rich and poor is access to the banking system. In fact, financial inclusion is considered a key factor in reducing poverty. Right now, a worryingly large percentage of the world’s population still remains unbanked. But it isn’t only blockchain tech that can make the difference.

According to the World Bank, around 1 billion financially excluded adults own mobile phones and some 480 million have access to the internet. This has massive implications when paired with the blockchain.

As Cherie Blair, founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women points out, “Computers are a distant dream but the mobile phone is an immediate reality.” Blockchain combined with mobile technology can put the unbanked on the grid since there would be no need for maintaining branches or other costly infrastructure.

According to global economist, Dr. John Edmunds, blockchain tech could open up sections of the global economy that have never been active before, since it allows for microtransactions. While no bank will cash a check for a dollar, “sometimes a dollar is all that a person needs,” he says.

As a Babson College Professor of finance who spent much of his career studying Latin American economies, Edmunds is extremely enthusiastic about the blockchain’s ability to create new value opportunities and level the playing field in this part of the world.

And he’s not the only one.

Monetizing Microtransactions

Jeremy Epstein, CEO of Never Stop Marketing, a marketing agency for blockchain startups, agrees. “Cryptocurrencies enable the assignment of value to items at smaller and smaller price points… You can cost-effectively compensate someone .0000001 of a cryptocurrency for even a small amount of data.”

This type of microtransaction allows the unbanked to engage in global commerce. “It’s unprofitable for the traditional banking system to service customers below a certain threshold,” Epstein continues, “but with cryptocurrency, a poor farmer in Kenya or Zimbabwe can prove creditworthiness simply by having the cryptocurrency in their wallet and proving ownership. It opens up the total available market for companies AND gives more people access to more goods and services.”

Global innovation blockchain leader at EY Paul Brody adds, “Cryptocurrencies present a huge opportunity to empower and connect people who may today be overlooked by the current banking and legal system. There is an opportunity to enable financial interactions among those who may not have access to traditional or reliable financial institutions.”

Fostering Micro-Lending and Micro-Trading

Thanks to blockchain’s ability to record the smallest of transactions, microlending can provide a rope for many people to pull themselves out of poverty. While microlending has gotten a bad name around the world, thanks to its association with high-interest rates and violent loan sharks, these bad actors could be removed from the picture.

Blockchain accounting would reduce the cost of loan administration, “by as much as 90 percent or more,” Edmunds explains. This would open up opportunities for microlenders to administer many more accounts, extending their services to a greater number of borrowers.

Microtrading also opens up a world of possibilities for people living in impoverished countries, with agriculture representing a key use case. Blockchain tech allows individual sellers to find and reach the market, trading at a fair price, without unnecessary markups or middlemen.

They can also transact amounts as small as a few kilos of onions since the size of trade that is economically viable becomes much smaller when using blockchain tech.

Creating Transparency and Eradicating Corruption

With every record in the ledger transparent and viewable to all, blockchain can enforce accountability at every link in the chain. So, where backhanders and bribes are par for the course, corruption could be left in the past. Not only would this ensure that individual traders were justly compensated, but it would drive down costs for the end user as well.

Recording all interactions in an immutable, public ledger means that each transaction leaves a footprint. Smart contracts remove the need for human interaction (and potential for tampering or falsification) and ensure that irreversible payments are made.

Other key documents, like land titles and deeds, can be stored in the blockchain as well. This could prevent the seizing of land that has always been a detriment to the poor, driving small-scale farmers and independent traders from their homes.

There are also a growing number of ICOs rising to the challenge of voter fraud in global elections. Using mobile and blockchain tech, voters can participate over wide geographies, and cast their votes without fear of intimidation or repercussion. And once their vote is cast it is tamper-proof.

This may help developing nations to obtain the free and fair elections they are promised, rather than ones marked by chaos, uprising, and political despots reluctant to rescind power.

Providing Unbroken Connectivity

According to CEO of RightMesh, John Lyotier, almost four billion people worldwide still don’t have continued access to the internet–and those that do achieve a patchy connection at best. This means that they are permanently excluded from the social and economic benefits that connectivity provides. “We have a unique opportunity to change the story of economic abundance,” he enthuses.

By harnessing blockchain’s potential, RightMesh plans to provide connectivity worldwide, without the need for internet access. Their “mesh networking” system allows mobile phones to connect directly through the blockchain, with no need for an ISP. The RMESH token works as an incentive in an attempt to encourage users to participate in the network of peer to peer connectivity.

The implications of this are far-reaching. Even those of us with internet access aren’t exempt from extenuating circumstances. Hurricanes, earthquakes, floods–should a natural disaster occur, such as in Puerto Rico last year, constant connectivity could save countless lives.

Electricity Where It’s Needed Most

1.2 billion people still lack access to electricity, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). These are mainly those living in rural areas across Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Here too, blockchain could provide the answer.

Energy financing and distribution are currently bottlenecked by large, centralized government agencies and NGOs, with an inefficient system that can take years to implement. Energy ICOs, like Ethereum-based ImpactPPA, allow individual investors to finance and accelerate global clean energy production, tokenizing energy generation.

They can provide energy where it’s needed most through a token model that allows its community to decide when and where projects should be funded.

Blockchain Can Eradicate Poverty in Third-World Countries

Blockchain can eradicate poverty in third-world countries (delivered in a shaky voice from the podium). But as with anything left in the hands of humans, whether we choose to use its potential for good remains to be seen. And while many great ideas are currently little more than PDFs hosted on fancy websites, let’s hope it won’t be too long before the best ones start working out.

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