You Don't See It, So Why Do You Need to See It?

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I wonder if its some of that is because we can't see how the business is being conducted. It just kind of feels unfair, because i can't see what's going on. Not all traders succeed. Many of them fail. Look at the average day trader fails at it because they're not good enough. So even in that sense, i think there's value being created, but it's not as clear as somebody like bill gates or jeff basil soran buffet have done. They've obviously created great value for other people.

John Mackey says the treatment for the cancer of crony capitalism is conscious capitalism, grounded “in an ethical system based on value creation for all stakeholders,” which includes not just owners, but employees, customers, the community, the environment, and even competitors, activists, critics, unions, and the media. Mackey cites Google and Southwest Airlines as role models, and pharmaceutical companies and financial corporations as anti-role models. In a surprise pivot, Mackey lays the blame for the myth of the profit motive as the only measure of value at the feet of capitalists themselves. Mackey’s goal is to write a new narrative for capitalism that asks us to care about customers and human beings instead of data points on a spreadsheet.