Is There a Moral Code That's Colliding With an Economic Code?

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There's two different narratives that go to t opposite direction. One narrative is that a business is just about maximising profits and e that narrative falls into the hands of the enemies of capitalists, because then you've got back to your stereotype of the cigar chopping gordon echo,. A stereotype that is going to um it falls into the handthe nobody wants a bunch of socio pals running our business. And that are just about greed and selfishness. The in ran narrative, i think, i's a narrative that if she's misunderstood. Don't mean to say that out of it, but she also played into thed s of the anti capitalists by making statements such as 'selfishness is

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.