picking, or your broker, everything is about how the market as a whole is doing. And so the people who own the market, which are all the big institutional investors, whose diversified portfolios ensure that they own the largest block of shares in everything, their concern, in their own self-interest, should be the health of the market, the health of the system itself. By helping them see their role, as stewards, that can help preserve the system, that can create the conditions in which we can then make better, balanced decisions in the interest of all stakeholders.
Lastly, we don't know where we're going. This is all new. This has literally never existed. And so another principle that one finds across all wisdom traditions that we have to embrace uncertainty, and give ourselves over with humility to the fact that we don't know how to do this.
This is an amazing poem (on the slide). I won't read it, it’s in Spanish, but this basically means that we are building the road as we travel. There is no path. We have to make the path by walking. So, as we do this, we can keep a visual in mind that gives us one way to think about a sacred economy — "economy with heart at the center." This beautiful graffiti artistic rendition of a heart (on the slide) is from a subway station in Santiago, Chile.
This image helps me to leave all of the stuff about institutional investors and fiduciary duty, and all these stupid stats behind. At the end of the day, all those are just trying to be manifestations of the inequities designed into the current failing system and sick culture. The real question is this: How do we bring heart into the center of an economy - an economy that has been based for 200 and some odd years on the invisible hand (of the markets). How do we shift our culture and systems so that they value not this invisible hand of the markets, but its visible heart?
Lastly, we don't know where we're going. This is all new. This has literally never existed. And so another principle that one finds across all wisdom traditions that we have to embrace uncertainty, and give ourselves over with humility to the fact that we don't know how to do this.
This is an amazing poem (on the slide). I won't read it, it’s in Spanish, but this basically means that we are building the road as we travel. There is no path. We have to make the path by walking. So, as we do this, we can keep a visual in mind that gives us one way to think about a sacred economy — "economy with heart at the center." This beautiful graffiti artistic rendition of a heart (on the slide) is from a subway station in Santiago, Chile.
This image helps me to leave all of the stuff about institutional investors and fiduciary duty, and all these stupid stats behind. At the end of the day, all those are just trying to be manifestations of the inequities designed into the current failing system and sick culture. The real question is this: How do we bring heart into the center of an economy - an economy that has been based for 200 and some odd years on the invisible hand (of the markets). How do we shift our culture and systems so that they value not this invisible hand of the markets, but its visible heart?
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