Comments on: reimagining Capitalism (part six: time to shut up) http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/02/17/reimagining-capitalism-part-six-time-to-shut-up/ irregularities and other absurdities Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:23:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ken http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/02/17/reimagining-capitalism-part-six-time-to-shut-up/comment-page-1/#comment-19751 Ken Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:18:54 +0000 http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/02/17/reimagining-capitalism-part-six-time-to-shut-up/#comment-19751 Josh- good series...appreciate all the thoughts. Josh- good series…appreciate all the thoughts.

]]> By: Josh http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/02/17/reimagining-capitalism-part-six-time-to-shut-up/comment-page-1/#comment-19745 Josh Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:49:10 +0000 http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/02/17/reimagining-capitalism-part-six-time-to-shut-up/#comment-19745 virgil, i without a doubt appreciate your perspective. especially considering your past. i do disagree though that a free-market is self-correcting. and i also disagree that marketing is the cure. the red campaign (in my estimation is a crock of crap) is some company's (Gap) justification for ignoring all of the other labor and environmental ethics that they are short in. It's just a cop-out to offer one product line as "fair" when the other 95% is unethical. <a href="http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/rs/profile.cfm?id=229" rel="nofollow">Gap Practices</a> Marketing stuff as environmentally safe and fair trade certified is not the answer. My buying a $5 latte because its "environmentally sound" seems a bit off-base when the rest of the product line is not "environmentally sound". Or "labor sound". virgil,
i without a doubt appreciate your perspective. especially considering your past.

i do disagree though that a free-market is self-correcting. and i also disagree that marketing is the cure. the red campaign (in my estimation is a crock of crap) is some company’s (Gap) justification for ignoring all of the other labor and environmental ethics that they are short in. It’s just a cop-out to offer one product line as “fair” when the other 95% is unethical.

Gap Practices

Marketing stuff as environmentally safe and fair trade certified is not the answer. My buying a $5 latte because its “environmentally sound” seems a bit off-base when the rest of the product line is not “environmentally sound”. Or “labor sound”.

]]> By: Virgil http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/02/17/reimagining-capitalism-part-six-time-to-shut-up/comment-page-1/#comment-19724 Virgil Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:42:23 +0000 http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/02/17/reimagining-capitalism-part-six-time-to-shut-up/#comment-19724 <i>All I am hoping for is a capitalism that no longer ignores the “effects” of our economy</i> I think that's the essence of a free market - eventually, as consumers become aware of those important issues like poverty, environmentalism, resources, etc, they will also make demands from the market along those lines...and the market will always respond. We already see companies marketing themselves as environmentally sound (Starbucks does this) and others linking marketing and products to poverty and AIDS (the RED campaign). So Capitalism is answering - it may be too slow for our liking, but it is happening. Ultimately it will happen...without government involvement. I have been enjoying your series; granted at times I disagreed with some of what was said, what would be the point of talking if we agreed on everything? It would get pretty boring :) All I am hoping for is a capitalism that no longer ignores the “effects” of our economy

I think that’s the essence of a free market – eventually, as consumers become aware of those important issues like poverty, environmentalism, resources, etc, they will also make demands from the market along those lines…and the market will always respond. We already see companies marketing themselves as environmentally sound (Starbucks does this) and others linking marketing and products to poverty and AIDS (the RED campaign). So Capitalism is answering – it may be too slow for our liking, but it is happening. Ultimately it will happen…without government involvement.

I have been enjoying your series; granted at times I disagreed with some of what was said, what would be the point of talking if we agreed on everything? It would get pretty boring :)

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