Today, the sustainability challenges the planet faces are extraordinary and completely unprecedented. Business and the capital markets are best positioned to address these issues. And there are clearly higher expectations for businesses, and more serious consequences for running afoul of the boundaries of corporate responsibility. We need to return to first principles. We need a more long-term and responsible form of capitalism. We must develop sustainable capitalism.
The new message from the Goracle: Forget Keynes. Think Marx.
Even if I didn’t know who those two people were, I should still be able to figure out how wrong he was with the whole Man Made Global Warming thing and know he is an idiot.
“Sustainability” is really a financial term that’s borrowed from zero-sum Anthropologists and cultural wankers – and works more adequately in markets, about which he clearly knows little, apart from some academic theory – it’s otherwise a completely bogus term.
I was just reading “Atlas Shrugged”. 50 years old is that book. Al Gore could have been reading RIGHT FROM IT!
Here’s a line from a meeting of a bunch of jealous and conniving businessmen who conspire to use populism, class warfare and government intervention to bring down a more successful competitor:
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Unreal.