Since 20 15 we've got in a kind of sliding backwards toward nationalism and populism, specially economic nationalism. The commune movement has a long history in the united states. Forty one times in the last hundred years, it's failed forty one times. But people are determined. We just haven't done it right yet. This time we'll do it right.
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.