[How] The purpose of business must be changed [~if 'Society' is to be preserved, at all]
npr/audio-only; unclear when this [Part 2 of a series] on several current existential Clusterfucks] can de streamed.
IMO the author makes many unarguable/informative assertions ..which only a crank might oppose, speaking lucidly while rebutting various memes (of the sort which have brought Vulture-Capitalism to the brink of being cast as a major Cause of (what Murica IS today?) and like that.
(As one who despises the innate double-talk and pretend 'science' of such usual-discussions, I found this framing quite copacetic/no Econ-jargon intrudes (!)
A "Capitalist Reformation" aborning? ..or to be stillborn via the mouth-power of 10-tonnes of C-notes, deliverd by helicopter? After all: we HAVE to do SOMETHING //buffered against// the utterly idiotic/thus useless Political non-dialogue du jour. Intransigence KIlls, we are seeing. The above demonstrates the necessary tone for any productive result, I wot.
fwiw
World Affairs Council
Rebuilding the Social Contract, Part 2: Corporate Interests: Shareholder or Stakeholder?
While globalization has lifted millions out of poverty, the geopolitical forces that drove it have largely left the middle class behind. There is a growing sense that the social contract established after WWII is broken.
This is the second episode of World Affairs’ three part series on the rebuilding of that social contract from three distinct perspectives: that of the people, that of the corporate sector, and that of government. This second episode focuses on the corporate sector’s perspective.
Since deregulation in the 1980s, the only stakeholder that has mattered to business is the shareholder. Jay Coen Gilbert, co-founder of B-Lab, and Colin Mayer, professor at Oxford University and author of “Prosperity: Better Businesses Makes The Greater Good,” discuss why the corporate culture may be at an inflection point with WorldAffairs Co-host Ray Suarez.
IMO the author makes many unarguable/informative assertions ..which only a crank might oppose, speaking lucidly while rebutting various memes (of the sort which have brought Vulture-Capitalism to the brink of being cast as a major Cause of (what Murica IS today?) and like that.
(As one who despises the innate double-talk and pretend 'science' of such usual-discussions, I found this framing quite copacetic/no Econ-jargon intrudes (!)
A "Capitalist Reformation" aborning? ..or to be stillborn via the mouth-power of 10-tonnes of C-notes, deliverd by helicopter? After all: we HAVE to do SOMETHING //buffered against// the utterly idiotic/thus useless Political non-dialogue du jour. Intransigence KIlls, we are seeing. The above demonstrates the necessary tone for any productive result, I wot.
fwiw