The Mandatory Test for Economic Mindsets Across 100 Free Economies

 The Mandatory Test for Economic Mindsets is a bold and practical solution designed to reverse the decline of 100 free economies. Its purpose is to ensure that government officials, particularly those tasked with job creation and SME development, possess the entrepreneurial expertise needed to combat the anti-job creation syndrome and the parade of economic errors. This test is not a punitive measure, but a tool for fostering a more entrepreneurial mindset among economic policymakers.

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Historical Context

Yesterday, America had, for over a century, the world's most skilled, qualified, and globally respected experts driving the period's growth. What happened? Only our profound discovery of key factors will correct such gaps. Not by random sleepless TikTok chats.

Today, China boasts the largest and most highly skilled workforce in the world, surpassing the combined workforce of all Western economies. How and why have they accomplished this, not as some secret economic theorem, but as living examples of national mobilization of entrepreneurialism?

Meanwhile, India has created 500 million new entrepreneurs, meaning they will grow and create jobs and enterprises in extremely different ways over time. As usual, SME growth is the primary driver, where Godzilla-size enterprises emerge, transforming into massive global giants that permanently alter the nation's economic landscape. How will this translate in Western economies, which have been visibly failing with SME growth for the last few decades in this regard?

Nations get lost when the political economy resembles ice hockey, played on football fields without ice or hockey sticks, and with tennis rackets under volleyball rules. A national economic emergency should be declared.

Core Framework: The Mandatory Test

As identified by the Mindset Hypothesis, a theory that posits a direct correlation between an individual's mindset and their ability to foster economic growth, the Test ensures that the drivers, developers, and policymakers of frontline political economic policy possess proven practical skills and a job-creator mindset to foster thriving economies. Currently, 99% of the economic development teams across 100 free economies are job seekers. A risk-averse mindset has become an anti-job creation syndrome.

The Test Highlights Three Critical Essentials

ONE: Proof of Skills: Six-Month Sabbatical

Requirement: Economic developers must take a six-month unpaid sabbatical to launch a small enterprise, grow the business, and hire employees while delivering value, boosting productivity, and achieving profitability.

Rationale: This exercise forces participants to confront entrepreneurial realities, including how to constantly face risk, expand an idea into an enterprise, hire, and manage finances, and ensure that only those with practical skills advance. It also provides solutions to SME struggles currently ignored by governments.

Evaluation Metrics:

Viability: The enterprise must generate revenue and show sustainability.

Job Creation: Proves possession of skills to hire workers with fair wages.

Productivity: Measurable output, such as units sold or services delivered.

Profitability: Positive income by the end of the program.

TWO: Proof of Success: Policy Leadership Qualification

Requirement: Successful participants immediately return to craft practices that foster SME ecosystems, mentor others, and drive transformative growth.

Rationale: Success proves the ability to navigate entrepreneurship, enabling practical, market-driven policies that avoid economic errors and address citizen realities like unrest and devalued skills.

Evaluation Metrics:

Differentiation: Show contrast-driven action and policies.

Policy Readiness: Submit experience-based recommendations.

Ecosystem Impact: Mentor entrepreneurs within government roles.

Long-Term Vision: Propose scaling SMEs into global enterprises.

THREE: Proof of Incompetency: Consequences of Failure

Requirement: Failure disqualifies officials from economic roles, necessitating reassignment or retraining. Evidence of a wasted decade per assignment would require urgent resources and attention.

Rationale: Inability to succeed exposes a lack of entrepreneurial mindset, perpetuating costly mistakes and the inaction that has frustrated citizens for years. Valuable lessons should take center stage in global discussions.

Evaluation Metrics:

Lessons and losses: What was damaged, where, and why

Failure Analysis: Submit features identifying skill or mindset gaps.

Rehabilitation Path: Enroll in entrepreneurial training, with options.

Accountability: Public disclosure of outcomes ensures transparency.

Implementation Warnings

If their performance does not align with the rates projected by the National Mobilization of Entrepreneurialism Protocols, a set of guidelines and best practices for fostering a more entrepreneurial economy, these economic development teams may be critically hindering the growth of SMEs. This situation prevents larger enterprises from having a chance to grow, leading to economic collapse at the grassroots level when the flow of new, larger enterprises stops, which ultimately kills new job creation. The world is in economic meltdown, and to rebuild the economy, we need economic warriors equipped with the right mindsets.

The Truth: To test and verify the mindset mismatch crisis of all economic development teams within a nation, it only takes a single day. It points to critical needs for corrective measures across 100 free economies.

The Waste: Literally, the annual SME Week, practiced by over 100 countries, should be banned as it is nothing but minimal lip service to acknowledge a busload of SMEs, with a week of banner displays and a plastic award night.

The Future: This is not an example of the job creator mindsets in action on national mobilization of entrepreneurial protocol, where 30-50% of all high-potential SMEs of the country are not only identified, classified, and categorized as part of placing them on digital highways but also mobilized on a 24x7x365 intense upskilling of exporters and reskilling of manufacturers to uplift a national economic base, making dramatic annual economic progress. A study of China and other countries in Asia is mandatory.

The Criteria:

1.Eligibility: Applies to all officials involved in economic development, job creation, SME expansion, exports, and attracting foreign investment.

1. Oversight: Expothon teams, in collaboration with a local, independent board of entrepreneurs and business leaders, ensure fairness.

1. Timelines: Pilot in 25 economies, with full rollout across 100 economies within one year.

1. Support System: Access to mentorship and market data, but no financial subsidies, to mirror real-world conditions and solve SME struggles.

Expected Outcomes

Economic Transformation: Implementing practical policies fosters SME growth and job creation, thereby alleviating unemployment and family pressures.

Cultural Shift: Cultivating a job-creator mindset is not just a policy change, it's a cultural revolution. It dismantles the anti-job creation syndrome and paves the way for a new era of economic resilience.

Accountability: Transparent testing restores public confidence and addresses citizen dissatisfaction.

The Daily Reality of Economic Collapse

Unemployment Epidemic: Joblessness, with rates over 10% in Southern European countries like Spain and Greece, breeds poverty and despair, as SMEs struggle under the bureaucratic weights

Family Structure Collapse: Economic pressures fracture households, driving isolation and mental health crises, with divorce rates increasing in many Western countries since 2020.

Education Devaluation: Degrees lose value amid skill mismatches, with 14% of EU youth aged 15-29 neither in employment nor education or training in 2024.

Civil Unrest Surge: Economic grievances spark protests and violence, with widespread unrest reported in many free economies in 2024.

Populism and Confusion: Misinformation-driven populism fuels division, with over 50% population in most countries distrusting institutions. These daily realities demand a radical shift to entrepreneurial solutions, which the Mandatory Test enforces by ensuring leaders experience and resolve these issues firsthand.

The Bureaucratic Barrier: Complicity in Crisis

The world's 100 free economies are spiraling toward collapse, eroded by a silent yet devastating flaw: the absence of entrepreneurial spirit in those entrusted with driving economic prosperity. Just as a hospital cannot save lives without skilled doctors or an airline cannot soar without trained pilots, economic development demands leaders with proven entrepreneurial courage and practical experience in building businesses.

To halt this decline, we must enforce a mandatory test for economic mindsets—a rigorous, real-world evaluation to ensure that only those who have successfully navigated the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship shape the policies that transform local lemonade stands into global powerhouses like Coca-Cola.

This Test, grounded in the Mindset Hypothesis and supported by the 21 Pillars of Nouveau Rationalism is not just a reform; it is a lifeline for economies on the brink, directly confronting the daily realities of unemployment, family breakdowns, devalued education, civil unrest, and institutional distrust, while delivering practical solutions through the National Mobilization of Entrepreneurialism.

The Entrepreneurial Imperative:

The Rise of New Economic Thinking: Key Terminologies and Concepts

Entrepreneurial Intellectualism: What is Entrepreneurial Intellectualism? Each small business is a grand puzzle, a potential exceptional success that blossoms only in the hands of entrepreneurial mindsets. Unknown to most economic intelligentsia, this "art of creation" is tacit knowledge—something that cannot be written, like riding a bike or swimming. It cannot be illustrated in a painting, bottled as a tonic, or canned as food. The Test ensures leaders embody this intellectualism, not just academic theory.

The Mindset Hypothesis: Over the last decade, the Mindset Hypothesis has revolutionized economic intellectualism. Western economists, predominantly job-seeking and risk-averse, have rarely created new enterprises that generate jobs and economic strength while embracing risks. Across over 100 free economies, 99% of economic development is led by job-seeker mindsets, which is the primary reason Western economies have faltered, lacking grassroots growth and prosperity, bringing economic leadership to its knees. A job-seeker mindset, no matter how brilliant in studies, fears risk and hesitates to explore unimaginable problems with unexplainable solutions. The Mandatory Test leverages this hypothesis to filter out risk-averse leaders.

The Anti-Job Creation Syndrome: The job-seeker mindset drives the Anti-Job Creation Syndrome. When billions of new jobs are needed across free economies, market-based, democratic nations like the USA, Europe, and Canada tremble—not from external shocks, but from a silent, yet visible, lack of new economic solutions. Job-seeker mindsets, risk-averse by nature, hinder job creation and economic growth. The Test counters this syndrome by mandating entrepreneurial experience.

The Parade of Errors: Dreaming Caterpillars: Calling an SME "small," like labeling a baby elephant small, reveals a need for better education in zoology. Laughing at a caterpillar dreaming of flight shows ignorance of metamorphosis. The Test corrects these errors by forcing leaders to see SMEs as potential giants.

The 21 Pillars of Nouveau Rationalism shift societies from bureaucratic stagnation to entrepreneurial dynamism, making it the optimal tool for the African Union, the European Union, the Commonwealth, BRICS, the OIC, the GCC, and many other regional blocs. Below are the top 10 reasons integrated with the Mandatory Test:

National Mobilization of Entrepreneurialism: Upskills 5,000–50,000 SMEs per country, fostering job-creator mindsets, as seen in India's GDP leap from $99 billion in 1974 to over $4 trillion in 2025

Exposing Anti-Job Creation Syndromes: Dismantling bureaucratic barriers boosts SME performance in declining economies like Southern Europe.

AI as a Mental Revolution: Integrates AI into SME upskilling, driving innovation in BRICS nations, such as China.

2030-Ready SME Strategies: Digitizing trade associations at AI levels helps EU nations reverse their technological lag.

Economic Oceans for SMEs: Fosters inclusive growth, driving micro-exports in AU countries, such as Ghana.

Entrepreneurs as Global Catalysts: Countering tariff wars with "skill winds," boosting productivity in BRICS economies.

Affordable Technology for SME Booms: Leverages sub-$1,000 technologies to spark SME growth, ideal for EU scalability.

From Traditional Education to Skills: Reskilling empowers, exports restoring education's value and profitability.

Ministries of Entrepreneurialism: Governance model ensures systematic organization, combating declines in ASEAN and Commonwealth nations.

Micropower Nations: Empowers smaller economies, ensuring SME-driven stability for AU and BRICS.

The Entrepreneurial Legacy: A brief examination of the last 100 earth-shattering entrepreneurs, their struggles, and their journeys reveals how economies evolved and how they created large-scale solutions, giving rise to Massive global giants that forever changed their nations. Over the past couple of centuries, approximately one million entrepreneurs worldwide have started small enterprises that grew into giants, each creating a million jobs and positively impacting grassroots prosperity. Now, try to find a Nobel Prize winner in Economics among that list.

Explicit vs. Tacit Knowledge: Globally, there are two kinds of primary knowledge: explicit knowledge, such as accounting, law, or chemistry, is codified and taught through books. For example, a CPA uses explicit knowledge to navigate tax codes. Tacit knowledge, like riding a bike or swimming, cannot be fully documented. Academic economists prioritize explicit knowledge, enabling giant accounting and law firms to employ thousands. Yet only visionaries like Bezos build enterprises like Amazon. Job-seeker mindsets in free economies cling to explicit safety, intuitively fearful of risks and job-creation ventures, fueling the anti-job creation syndrome that ultimately collapses economies.

The Entrepreneurial Necessity: New job creation requires growth and the constant addition of new enterprises. Enterprises are not hatched like eggs in a chicken farm; only entrepreneurs create and grow them. Some remain small, while others transform into Godzilla-sized global giants. This is how jobs are created, as there is no other way. Economic development without entrepreneurialism is economic destruction.

The Fear of Risk: Why are such discussions banned within economic faculties? It is pure fear of confronting risks. Those locked in a game of theorems cannot imagine or explain air conditioning or a light bulb in the 18th century, nor hardware, software, or mobile phones in the 20th century. The expansion of technology, miniaturization, portability, and global connectivity has made the SME population a global mind, but only for entrepreneurial mindsets. The crisis lies in over 100 free economies, gripped by 99% job-seeker mindsets across national sectors, lacking the natural aptitude for job creation and SME development, which crushes these deep, natural resources and fails to harness balanced mindshare to advance critical economic goals.

The Forbidden Narrative: It takes a day to test, audit, and verify this across a nation. Never assume national or global institutions or leading economic schools will raise such topics. These ideas are often abandoned or forbidden because they are too unconventional, unfamiliar, or casual, lack theoretical foundations or numerical complexity, have no feasibility studies or business plans, rely on unconventional and uncertain methodologies, and exhibit risky attitudes. This lack of entrepreneurial skills has been a significant contributor to the decline in economic development across Western economies over recent decades.

A Brief History of Superpower Economies

Corrective Measures: Needed is a calculator: A simple calculator from the local dollar store to ensure the correct amounts are placed in all the right columns.

Lessons Learned

One: Study how superpower economies became superpowers, not through economic intellectualism or the discovery of mountains of gold and diamonds, but exclusively through the national mobilization of entrepreneurialism.

Two: Today, economics is merely a numbering game, akin to sketching a skyscraper with precise measurements. However, entrepreneurialism is like delivering a robustly constructed building that alters the city skyline. If a city were built solely with such sketches, it would collapse in the first storm.

Three: Today's economic houses of cards are on display, ready to crumble at the slightest disturbance. Entrepreneurialism, in contrast, provides a sturdy foundation that ensures the resilience of business models, structures, real value creation, and growth.

Four: Poverty is not the absence of wealth but of productivity. Economic struggle is not a lack of foreign exchange but poor exportability. SME abandonment stems not from a lack of access to finance, but from a need for specific skills in creating real value. Economic failures are not about bad governments but the critical absence of entrepreneurialism.

Needed, an Honest Study: There exists a plethora of SME studies—review the last 100 major SME studies from the previous decade. Most, conducted by pure academics, critically lack reference to the entrepreneurial job-creator mindset and are thus disconnected from real-world challenges. Imagine watching a movie about Tarzan, where the focus is solely on precise measurements of his bow, arrow, knife, and underwear, but nothing about who he is, where he came from, how he became Tarzan, why animals love him, why Jane chases him, or why he is called the King of the Jungle. Similarly, entrepreneurs cannot write scientific theses, and academic studies are just that—academic, suited for libraries, not tactical battles.

Entrepreneurial Facts

Economic development without entrepreneurialism is economic destruction.

Political power without economic power is no power at all.

Economic power without entrepreneurial power yields no growth.

Entrepreneurial power without a balanced mindset hypothesis is no power. The mindset hypothesis creates equilibrium between job-seeker and job-creator mindsets.

Increasing the debt ceiling is not an economic success but a grand failure.

Abandoning a national citizenry unable to compete in the global age is a political failure.

The inability to identify, categorize, and digitize high-potential SMEs is a significant economic development failure.

The Five Critical Keys

Customization Key: What works in one country differs vastly in action and results in another. A highly focused series of skilled discussions is essential under a master plan.

Personalization Key: Each entrepreneur is unique; every small enterprise is a large enterprise in the making. Mobilization involves large-scale deployments where cross-fertilization becomes a natural process.

Sectorization Key: Each sector in the SME landscape is a unique tactical battlefield. A deep understanding of the global age is crucial to help these enterprises grow in national or international markets.

Digitization Key: Every enterprise must navigate digital platforms effectively. National mobilization of entrepreneurialism creates economic opportunities for SMEs, but only digitization ensures their long-term survival without entrepreneurial mobilization at its core; progress stalls.

Categorization Key: Unless minds are balanced and the right ideas align with the right trajectory, 99% of SME programs worldwide fail to advance. Smaller SMEs are never permanently small, and one-size-fits-all planning never works. Mastery is essential

Time for Re-Learning: Among economic development teams in over 100 countries, many are yet to be exposed to Expothon narratives, new global trends, and critical analyses. The current international landscape demands that we confront realities and test value offerings against critical needs. Economic failures and global civil unrest test skills and competency across all economies. Even if these assertions are incorrect, they should not deter open debates. Silence now signals fear of exposing competency levels. In search of immediate solutions, the times call for action, opening doors to global debates crucial for our collective future.

Global Examples

Chicken Fried Rice: For decades in the West, dining on "chicken fried rice" in a local Chinatown has been insufficient to claim expertise in Chinese culture or economics. A visit to China is essential. Global political and economic leadership in the free world should study building a national economy based on entrepreneurialism. Using China as a prime example requires a year-long daily class to comprehend the required mastery fully.

Silicon Valley: The first and only Silicon Valley was neither an academic nor a financial revolution but a mobilization of entrepreneurial journeys long before "IT" or "technology" became billion-dollar concepts. Clusters of entrepreneurs with revolutionary job-creator mindsets emerged from garages, broke old systems, created new alternatives, and changed the world forever—a revolution by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs.

Harsh Reality Check

Open Challenge on the Global Stage

Creating Superpower Economies

In 1974, India had a $99 billion economy; today, it is over $4 trillion.

China had a $148 billion economy; today, it is $18 trillion.

The USA had a $1.5 trillion economy; today, it is $27 trillion (World Bank).

A decade in the making, Expothon narrative is not a war but an invitation to renegotiate the terms, rules, and definitions of economic progress, moving away from chaotic SME management and debt-based economies.

Entrepreneurial Options for Governments

Allow micro, small, and medium enterprises a tax-free window on the first few million in export revenues to create local jobs and bring foreign exchange.

Provide SMEs free access to dormant intellectual property.

Offer academic experts and scientists on innovative technologies and skills through free voucher programs.

Provide SMEs with full-time MBAs as 12-month government-paid internships to foster real entrepreneurialism.

Allow millions of qualified entrepreneurs to reside in a nation for 5–10 years under a unique tax-free visa program.

Mandate the National Administration of Mobilization of Entrepreneurialism [NAME] to engage trade and export bodies.

The National Mobilization of SME Entrepreneurialism

Fact: The world can absorb unlimited exportable ideas in unlimited markets.

Fact: Well-designed, innovative ideas are worthy of quadrupled volumes.

Fact: A nation's entrepreneurial and dormant talents can perform such tasks.

Fact: New global-age skills, knowledge, and execution are the missing links.

Transformation Timelines

10 days: Establish policies to start an SME sector digitization program.

100 days: Mobilize and place 1,000 to 100,000 SMEs on digital platforms.

1,000 days: Achieve robust economic development and global activities.

Mental Preparedness Timelines

1,000 days: Become a top-class economic development game player.

100 days: Achieve deep immersion to champion digital transformations.

10 days: Conduct intense workshops to articulate senior-level discussions.

A Cabinet-Level Meeting: Despite decades-old, failed procedures and current setbacks in SME economic development, immense potential awaits across nations. When harnessed, this potential can lead to a dramatically brighter economic future.

Master Strategies and Deployable Solutions: Expothon Worldwide, an international initiative from a Canadian think tank, developed the National Mobilization of Entrepreneurialism Protocols over the past decade. These insights are shared weekly with approximately 2,000 VIP recipients, including cabinet-level senior government officials across 100 free economies, forming a foundation of expertise and trust.

A Path Forward: Collaborate with this framework, accessible via its free 50-page report on the 21 Pillars of Nouveau Rationalism, download from expothon.com

The Global Hub: Under planning to be fully equipped to guide 50–100 nations with 1,000 experts, can transform SME ecosystems. AU, BRICS, and EU leaders: Collaborate to alleviate unemployment, restore families, revalue education, quell unrest, and combat populism. The Mandatory Test ensures collaborators are fully equipped to implement these solutions effectively.

Conclusion: We evolve only when our critical thinking allows us to walk on a razor's edge; the rest is merely dreaming, whether asleep or awake. The Mandatory Test for Economic Mindsets, supported by the National Mobilization of Entrepreneurialism and the 21 Pillars of Nouveau Rationalism, is the pragmatic path to save 100 free economies from decline.

The rest is easy.

Disclosure: The author, Naseem Javed, is Canadian, a Liberal for the past 50 years, pro-American, and a product of Americanism and global entrepreneurial mysticism, as well as a harsh critic of economic negligence.