Capital-ism—Dx b4 Rx
Capitalism is back in the conversation crosshairs in ways we haven’t seen, at least the US, in my lifetime. From disaffected youth to the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, crtitiques abound.
There’s a rising momentum for reform, but the many “reform capitalism” initiatives—democratic capitalism, stakeholder capitalism, ecological capitalism, conscious capitalism—fail to rigorously address the structural defects of this only 500 year “system“ that so dominates our lives that it is “easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.“
Well, these days we find more and more people actively imagining the end of the world.
And since “prescription without diagnosis is malpractice,“ I’ve been thinking deeply into a rigorous diagnosis and the prescriptions that it might point to, examining the structural defects of the global capital-ist system that will—depending on your point of view—either destroy us or save us.
I’d like to workshop these ideas with you, and develop that thinking further.
So please join us one week from today for Living Between Worlds, our monthly conversation for possibility, when we’ll dive into this analysis—and where it points. (If you’d like a running start, take a look at an early discussion here.)
(Why do I hyphenate “capital-ism”? Join us and find out.)
And join me in the flesh (!):
- September 25 at ClimateWeekNYC, where I’ll keynote CapGemini’s Business To Planet Connect and explore bringing nature into the boardroom;
- October 5 for an lively, face to face (!) discussion—over a fine, alfresco, Good People Dinner in a Berkeley CA backyard—about the six principles for economic reinvention that emerge from this diagnosis. Several early bird spots are still available.
- October 14-17 at the Sustainable Brands conference, where I’ll propose shifting focus from employee engagement to employee ownership. (Let me know if you’d like my discount code, good for any participation level.)
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