Ocean State Foods

This post references the “administration” highlight on IG; or the album of the same name on Facebook. We’re taking a further look at the systems we rely on as a society; and the industries we collectively decided that we “can’t do without”. This is what happens when you create an inelastic demand and a lack of responsibility; for example I wouldn’t need an accountant at our current scale if it wasn’t for taxes. If I could represent myself effectively (and didn’t have to dance around a judge’s ego), I wouldn’t need these BS artists

Losing tons of money and time is bad enough; the real crime is that my faith in both of these professions has been eroded to a point where they’re operating at a negative (they’ve brought a LOSS in value to me; every step of the way)

Even better, is how they fit together. In an “imaginary” world: the accountant spends my money on a lawyer to threaten me to shut-up about how they basically stole my money; and then my lawyer doesn’t care because I don’t have the money to p**s away in court. I mean, the only people that would win are the lawyers right?

Tell me this; what is the incentive to do the right thing, when justice is only available to those who can pay for it? Why should I wait for the court, when I know I could sell the guy’s car and the gold in his teeth by the end of the week? Well, I guess the only thing is that we know the criminal justice system is much more efficient than the civil courts; but I think that too would be overloaded once enough people realize it’s up to them

I can’t even dream that one day, maybe my kids can become one of you; because I can’t even get paid for what I do, or get what I paid for (that kid wouldn’t be able to eat right now, never mind college). The social contract is in breach; and there’s like one loose screw holding the handle on

If we don’t fix the problems, they’re going to keep happening. The owner that never got held responsible, he’s going to steal your grandma’s dessert in the nursing home; and his kids that were able to live a good life on dad’s fraud money will literally take the food out of your children’s mouth

We’ve been adding content via our stories/highlights; we have a couple posts coming this week to further tie things together. Unfortunately, certain things have an implied negative tone; so we wanted to update you on where we stand, our future plans, and how it all fits together

We have path forward; we’re going to turn Ocean State Foods into a local food hub, amongst other things. We’ve been updating the information on our site, bit by bit; and it’s kind of a “rough draft” for the direction we’re going in. Imagine it like this: anything you can dream us doing, we can potentially do for you. We tried to give you some ideas by laying out our experience/skills/education; but we’re free to do whatever needs to be done if you really want to make a change

In short, we are “doubling down” on our mission; and simply pursuing it from a number of different angles. We’ve done a lot of thinking, and all of our successes personally, professionally, and as a business stem from our ability to both develop & execute realistic systems; so we can pursue our goals by helping you with your’s

The first piece is our consulting; it’s how we intend to pay our bills and dig ourselves out of the holes we had to dig getting here. We’re purposefully not for everyone; consider us so honest that if you bring us into the wrong environment, we’ll end up destroying it so it can be built back better (I said it). We’re for the genuine only; and for those who share our vision & values, not work against inclusivity

There is considerable risk; that speaking out will alienate other business owners (especially those on the ”ins”) and it’ll just be another sad story of doing the work and getting nothing back. But this time we’re smarter; and we have a nice list of things to address when we’re slow that further our interests. We’ll have more to say on the consulting; but for now, please don’t hesitate to reach out

First things first though, we need to finish leveling the playing field a bit. The mission to develop our local food systems is a noble one; but unfortunately good things shine bright enough to attract the monsters