Comments on: Why Conscious Capitalism is an illusion https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/why-conscious-capitalism-is-an-illusion/2015/05/07 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sun, 10 May 2015 00:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Christopher Aquilino https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/why-conscious-capitalism-is-an-illusion/2015/05/07/comment-page-1#comment-1171095 Sun, 10 May 2015 00:49:46 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=50026#comment-1171095 Well, I was into the new age/conscious living/spirituality and personal development world for several years. And Michel is spot on about this. For all the talk of living consciously they’re pretty unconscious about politics and economics.

Really they just take the status quo as a given. And it’s without much justification. Then they tend to say anyone who disagrees with them holds “disempowering” viewpoints. Or it’s “you have limiting beliefs”. Yeah, but all beliefs are limiting by nature.

And it’s part of the reason I moved away from that milieu years ago. It’s less that I disagree with their “conscious capitalism” and more that their economic analysis is woefully shallow. Honestly, most of them put far more thought into what diet they should eat.

I’m amazed by the hypocrisy. They spend huge amounts of time thinking about the morality of a diet, the environmental issues, health impacts and so on. But almost nothing about capitalism versus other systems—much less comparing different forms of capitalism against each other.

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By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/why-conscious-capitalism-is-an-illusion/2015/05/07/comment-page-1#comment-1169739 Thu, 07 May 2015 17:57:25 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=50026#comment-1169739 In reply to Matthew Slater.

hi matthew, if you check the concept of capitalism in our wiki search box, you will see various variations come up such as inclusive capitalism, regenerative capitalism, and others; they all go in the same direction of wanting to moralize capitalism in some way or other.

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By: Matthew Slater https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/why-conscious-capitalism-is-an-illusion/2015/05/07/comment-page-1#comment-1169466 Thu, 07 May 2015 08:43:18 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=50026#comment-1169466 This article would have benefited greatly from some quotes.
Who is promoting conscious capitalism and what do they mean by it?

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