The human condition historically has been a pretty horrible situation. It's just gotten a lot better. We're still far from being perfect, but we're, were making progress,. and we will continue to make progress. Y, hold my dream. You know, mikel oneo, one of the best, best examples you use was the farms. Yes, an you mention farms. It's going to remember, 200 years ago, 90 % of the work force worked on farms. Now it's like less than three%. Well, what did those people do while they do other things now? Well, or my other favourite example is the elevator operators. The little guy sitting in the corner
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.