I have a strong feeling that promoting business alliances between devotees will help individual devotees make money for their families and also help build a global business community with devotees at the center. Even people who are "non-devotees" would benefit by association with the devotees because they will get educated about some of the devotional principles. I recollect the story of a friend of mine who wanted to succceed in business but was not interested in devotion. Somehow he came in contact with devotees and judging his intentions a devotee promised him that he will get international alliances for his jewel business if he went to mayapur because there are so many foreigners there. He went and got attracted to devotional service instead! He is practising for over ten years now. Of course, he also got a lot of international contacts for his jewel business-

Ofcourse, it is important that devotees do not exploit each other in the name of business or devotion. Any thoughts ?