Investment As Activism

Dr. Docasoul
Sep 1, 2018 · 5 min read

I have long been an investor in financial markets in an effort to secure a brighter future for my family. Across the same span of years driven by a deep compassionate love for humanity I have extended my energy selflessly to help fight social injustice on many fronts. Historically speaking these two endeavors have never joined forces. Never have I found a means to invest in a tradable asset class with economic ROI (return on investment) potential that was also a humanitarian mission to bring free basic health care to the entire world.

If you Google “activist investor” here is the definition that follows:

An activist investor is an individual or group that purchases large numbers of a public company’s shares and/or tries to obtain seats on the company’s board with the goal of effecting a major change within the company.

The term “activist investor” denotes an aggressive means of manipulating a company’s agenda through policy change. The definition does not even allow for the inference that ROI relative to the action taken place is specifically financial in nature.

Docademic immediately brings to mind the socially conscientious platform slogans of Socialist-Democratic freedom fighter from Vermont Bernie Sanders: A FUTURE TO BELEIEVE IN and A REVOLUTION IS COMING. Sanders advocated for Universal Health Care for all and his messaging was rooted in a robust concern for wealth distribution disparities. Behind the vision of Docademic is a clear understanding that free basic healthcare for everyone in the world must be just that — free — because systemic poverty all over the world informs us that no cost however minimum is affordable.

What are some of the facts we know about the world health care crises:

In 1800 no country had a life expectancy above 40 and today in most of the developed world, where healthcare access is strong average life expectancies fall between ages 75–85. Whereas, across the most impoverished nations of Africa and continental Asia, where basic health care access is virtually non-existent, life expectancies range between 50–70.

One of the wealthiest nations on planet Earth, the United States of America, while spending more than 2.8 trillion dollars — more than 17% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on its health-care system, 30 million Americans remain uninsured. It is said that 100 million Americans a year are forced to choose between food and health care. We know that HALF THE WORLD POPULATION CANNOT ACCESS ESSENTIAL BASIC HEALTHCARE SERVICES.

Enter DOCADEMIC.

The company originated in Mexico, a country that is wracked by the plight of wealth disparity. It’s visionary founders understood that basic health care would have to be free — but how? Enter another revolutionary idea: Blockchain technology and the ideological doctrine of liberation economics. Docademic’s founders envisioned how the free basic health care would be a well spring of valuable, commodifiable data. They envisioned that governments, companies, institutions, and universities would pay for access to the data sets provided by patients of the free basic health care service, data that was immutably stored on the blockchain, that could only ever be accessed with permissions enabled by the smart contract technology of Blockchain.

The currency used to purchase the data is MTC, a tradable digital asset at crypto currency exchanges. MTC fuels the Docademic ecosystem which pays for the free basic health care and hence a rationale for redefining the term investment activism.

At this moment I would like to extend an invitation for all those not currently invested in Docademic to go to the companies website: Doc.com. Read up more about the company’s history. You will learn that it’s services are already working for people in 20 different countries. You will learn that Docademic’s free basic health care has already impacted over 50,000 lives and that number grows everyday. And if you are one who devotes time to social justice causes consider how Docademic allows you to be at once a traditional investor in tradable assets and actively helping to end the social injustice of the uninsured around the world.

If you are already a Docademic investor, perhaps milling about the Docademic official Telegram channel hoping to discuss token metrics or the fundamentals of the upcoming airdrop, take a moment and consider: you are already an investment activist. For the first time in human history Docademic alone has brought forth a viable solution to an epidemic responsible for millions of unwarranted deaths annually worldwide. And beyond the deaths there are literally billions more who suffer in silence and succumb to a fear generated by an unjust lack of knowledge. Knowledge is the cornerstone of awareness and awareness is fundamental to self-empowerment. Access to medical knowledge will alleviate fear by eradicating the unknown — the pivotal question: “what is wrong with me” can be answered, and the answer is the basis of the basic transformational power of Docademic.

The radical underpinning of the solution brought forth by the visionary leaders of our project is an ecosystem for housing and transacting the most powerful asset on earth today which is data. Ours is an ecosystem that has intelligently turned the economics of basic healthcare insurance on its’ head. Suddenly the very entities that for centuries have been unwilling or unable to develop a solution are now lining up to pay for it by their willingness to pay for big data and this is liberation economics at work. .

Docademic is redefining selflessness in social justice activism: within the whole body of the project is a new truth: support of the project is investment that accrues in value and reaps personal reward while it is simultaneously a mode of activism.

As investors we may now turn from the superficial to the substantial, we may begin to try and deeply understand the nature of our commitment to Docademic and how that commitment is transformative on a global scale.

Our project is fundamentally a humanitarian mission, our project has a profound desire for deep justice. Our project Is aware that the voices of suffering everywhere need to be heard and by the services offered through Docademic, their prayers will be answered. A life uninsured in Mexico or Sudan is no less an injustice than a life uninsured in America or Great Britain. Let us realize through our support of Docademic we are being true to something that is bigger than ourselves.

Dr. Docasoul

American Poet & Artist; advocate of the healthcare justice mission of DOC.COM: actively engaged in bringing free basic healthcare to the entire world

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