The CEO/Founder of WHOLE FOODS used to love socialism. Then he started a business.
Now he is a rabid defender of free market style capitalism and can calmly and rationally debate why free market capitalism is actually best for humans and how it most closely aligns with human nature.
Now that all said, I leave the local WHOLE FOODS market with an empty wallet and I'm usually muttering under my breath about the high prices whenever I go there... which is not often. I like their selection of premium goods and their unusual foods. I really bitch about their prices. But at least I know when I go there that I'm not supporting some liberal do-gooder who is using profits generated from my hard earned dollars to destroy my way of life.
http://opportunitylives.com/whole-foods-ceo-drops-the-mic-on-why-socialism-will-never-work/
The article is interesting, its a combination of a story about how he debated a Marxist leaning professor from YALE and about his views as a free market capitalist who believes that capitalist companies can do good and make the world a better place.
Now he is a rabid defender of free market style capitalism and can calmly and rationally debate why free market capitalism is actually best for humans and how it most closely aligns with human nature.
Now that all said, I leave the local WHOLE FOODS market with an empty wallet and I'm usually muttering under my breath about the high prices whenever I go there... which is not often. I like their selection of premium goods and their unusual foods. I really bitch about their prices. But at least I know when I go there that I'm not supporting some liberal do-gooder who is using profits generated from my hard earned dollars to destroy my way of life.
http://opportunitylives.com/whole-foods-ceo-drops-the-mic-on-why-socialism-will-never-work/
The article is interesting, its a combination of a story about how he debated a Marxist leaning professor from YALE and about his views as a free market capitalist who believes that capitalist companies can do good and make the world a better place.
...Mackey is by no means a miserly and tight-fisted capitalist. Mackey’s book, “Conscious Capitalism,” advocates a values- and ethics-based capitalistic system. He says as a young man, he had socialistic leanings but only after starting Whole Foods did he realize that a truly altruistic society is one that creates a long-term, sustainable system for maximizing human happiness through voluntary exchange.
“I’m an idealist in terms of what’s possible,” Mackey said. “I want to make the world a better place. But you have to do that in a sort of pragmatic fashion. Not a utopian transformation, there’s not going to be a new human being that’s going to pop up that human nature ceases to exist and that’s been the myth of the socialistic man, that they can change human nature...