Conscious Capitalism | John Mackey | Talks at Google

[@panpiper]

I fully expected this to be a diatribe against the free market. I was very pleasantly surprised to be wrong. There was nothing anti-free market here at all, quite the contrary. He pointed out very succinctly how doing business 'consciously' was simply a better way of doing business, that is was more profitable than doing so otherwise. I could not agree more.

[@chrismullaney9042]

My only question now is how do I displace workers with cheaper prison labor and still make a claim that I am being conscientious like John Mackey? I guess I can just claim it and hope nobody calls me out. Seemed to work for him.

[@litieguai6306]

Wow this needs more views

[@ajitsakri9888]

1. examples of this philosophy 2. Why this philosophy works 3. History of capitalism 4. Business model of the author 5. Any problem that 20 year old can solve this are the things I'm curious about after listening to this talk

[@chrismullaney9042]

Don't you want to know how to displace workers with cheaper prison labor like John Mackey did, or do you already have that covered?

[@ajitsakri9888]

@@chrismullaney9042 Context please, Elaborate

[@chrismullaney9042]

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[@chrismullaney9042]

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[@chrismullaney9042]

@@ajitsakri9888 I didn't mean to imply that you are using prison labor (although likely you are at some point in your supply chain). I'm sure you are trying to avoid it as best you can. Unfortunately, you're gonna get a little prison labor in your products. It's like rat feces in your sausage. Nobody wanted it there, nobody knows how it got there, steps were taken to make sure no rat feces gets in, but then you test it, and statistically speaking, now you're eating rat feces.

[@DanielWoike]

I really like John Mackey.

[@bobbylindsey]

My God this man is clueless. Completely stuck in his own bubble of privilege and arrogance. You can't solve the problems when you're not participating.

[@SusanSteinway]

"Idealistic"? Hmmmm. Thanks for making this an OK word. (I love Whole Foods!)

[@smallfootprint2961]

It's all lovely, but let's be honest that regulations have come about because of historical bad acting on the part of business.

[@tradingfoursj]

very interesting stuff. this guy has got a lot of things right and also has a lot of sensibilities most business people are not even close to. still, he gets a lot, an awful lot of stuff wrong. if he had read max weber he would know capitalism has existed since ancient greece and rome, what has been in existence for only roughly 200 years has been industrial scale production and mechanical / electrical power. if he had read desmond morris' oeuvres, he would know a lot more about humankind. and if he knew his history he would know that he is crediting capitalism for a lot of stuff it wasn't even remotely involved in. universal education was first implemented by charlemagne in a national scale and it has been a conquest of the state everywhere. the best educated populations have always relied on public education systems. the massive increase in people's lifespan was achieved with public research and with the legal imposition of hygiene and sanitary practices. unfettered capitalism has always gone too far, the british only took pause when most of their industrial cities were unlivable and killed people with their pollution and squalor. the usa also went through some industrial excesses and nowadays it is the people's republic of china who are learning the lesson first hand. it is rule of law that is magnificent, it is the greatest possible degree of economic equality that is magnificent, it is a population of informed, involved and demanding citizens / consumers that is magnificent. it is those elements that increase standards of living, not capitalism, but its counterweights.

[@litieguai6306]

Not sure why he needs to know all of those things that you happen to know to write his book

[@chrismullaney9042]

@@litieguai6306 he doesn't need it to make money selling conscientiousness while exploiting prison labor either I think the commenter you were responding to was discrediting some of his points for us. John Mackey doesn't read KZbin comments.

[@KingOfShenanigan]

This man sold Whole Foods to a mega-monopoly. "Conscious capitalism" my ass.

[@JohnnyAmerique]

First of all, the premise is false: Most intellectuals don’t hate capitalism, as they are themselves bourgeoisie or petty bourgeoisie, and therefore benefit from the capitalist class society. What many booj intellectuals do understand, at least at some level, is that capitalism is an inherently contradictory and self-destructive system that will tend to obliterate itself if measures are not taken to manage and ameliorate the contradictions inherent therein. So-called “libertarians” are, on the other hand, precisely the sort of naive fools who would - in own gluttony, credulity or foolishness (usually the latter two) - bring about the sort of unfettered capitalism that Marx correctly observed is a revolutionary force.

[@jlmur54]

Yeah, I thought he had a very shallow definition of poverty. “Under a dollar a day”. Kinda irresponsible. In my limited opinion. Like his knowledge about food, though.

[@CraigTalbert]

yay meng!

[@dohyunsong5605]

How does Nordstrom shares the same value as Wholefoods? This is a question, not to offend anyone. Because for me, Nordstrom is a deparment store which sells many products that are harmful for the environment.

[@PavlosPapageorgiou]

This talk would be better without the dogmatic refrain about economic freedoms. Economic freedoms have been curtailed over time, in each instance because of unethical practices by some enterprises who put making money above the interests or the safety of other stakeholders. Constantly harping on about the romantic era of economic freedoms makes the rest of the talk suspect.

[@lifeisneverthesame910]

a man without college degree.

[@Wild_Vegan_Child]

Small business can be evil as well, they don't have the policies in place to protect their employees from harassment or bullying. Working for big business (or corporations) has been my best experience with having a safe workplace in every sense of the term. I will never work for small business again, they get away with too much.

[@JohnnyAmerique]

Wild Vegan Child Indeed! Naive liberals preach the virtues of “small business” while obviously never having any experience being an employee of “small business.” It is objectively the case that you are most likely to be the victim of wage theft, sexual harassment, overtime violations, and so forth at one of these beatified “small businesses” than you are at a medium or large corporation. That’s not to say the latter is much better - it’s just that they’ve streamlined the process of exploitation and alienation such that they don’t have to blatantly steal, harass and exploit in the way that small business typically does. The bottom line is that all of these parasitic capitalist enterprises, whatever their size, need to be wrested from the tapeworm-like control of their shareholders and places under the control of the workers who operate them.