Many social enterprises struggle with scale, and technology often seems like the silver-bullet.

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These projects do not have to be overwhelmingly huge in scale either- those with Vital Voices often express that whether the assignment is big or small, the importance is in inspiring others and paying it forward.

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Small scale producers and consumers are often at a disadvantage with information and sometimes social entrepreneurs can find sustainable ways to change the flow of information in favor of the public good.

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The band takes an idiosyncratic approach to music-making: It purchased an abandoned church as studio space, it's traveled to Budapest to record with large-scale choirs and orchestras, and it often incorporates a jumble of reflective tape, neon signs, megaphones and motorcycle helmets in its live concerts.

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Much less certain subprime cash flows from borrowers often with very poor credit were apparently an easy mountain for Wall Street to scale.

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With the exception of Jack Cade's rising in 1450 and the Peasants' Revolt 70 years earlier (a large-scale popular uprising with genuinely revolutionary social and economic aims), medieval rebellions were often more about preserving the status quo rather than challenging it.

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