Do filthy rich stage green business / Monopolies exist ?

[Striving for more]

Interesting to know about any "filthy rich" stage green companies / entrepreneurs 

[DocWatts]

If you're alluding to monopolistic tech giants like Apple or Google, then no. Despite promoting some Green social attitudes as part of thier company Culture, thier structure and business practices are still solidly Orange.

Green businesses do of course exist, but the sort of ruthlessness needed to become a 'filthy rich' monopoly aren't congruent with stage Green values. A stage Green business structure would be more along the lines of something like a worker-owned cooperative, which do exist, but are nowhere near the size of the largest traditionally run corporations.

Not pure Green, but I can think of a few large Companies that are more of a blend of Orange and Green. Costco comes to mind for paying its workers a living wage in an industry that's infamous for starvation pay, and for ita business model of buying and selling in bulk being less ecologically wasteful than its competitors. Perhaps Valve as well, for its relatively pro-consumer practices for its digital content distribution platform, Steam.

 

[Parththakkar12]

This would require so much consciousness on the part of the corporation, it's ridiculous.

• The corporate CEO would need to see oneself as someone leading their collective, which is the corporation, to financial abundance and prosperity. It would require conscious leadership. This is not what we currently have. What we currently have is corporate bosses only thinking about filling their pockets. Same goes for their highly-paid employees.
• Everyone involved would have to be in their Life Purpose. All the employees, everyone. If your Life Purposes don't align, you don't get a job there. That would have to be the criteria for hiring! The government would have to be on board with this, the interviewees would have to be on board with this. If the interviewees aren't on board with this, they could sue the corporation for unfair hiring practices or something.
• The corporate culture would have to be willing to sacrifice a little bit of productivity for social consciousness. As a corporation, very difficult to do. You have a lot of mouths to feed when you're talking about a big corporation.
• The competitive playing field would have to be a lot more humane and a lot less cut-throat. I think this is precisely why it'll be so difficult to have a conscious monopoly - the playing-field is not a playing-field where everyone plays by the rules and is socially conscious, it's more of a dog-eat-dog battlefield right now. I think the battle will have to go on for a while before either we blow ourselves up in a nuclear holocaust, or the survivors are the most conscious ones and they create a more humane and co-operative playing field as opposed to the competitive one we have today. Winner-take-all competition would have to cease to be the way to go, people would have to be conscious enough to want to be fair and co-operate with each other. The problem with this is that even if one person's consciousness is low enough. they're greedy enough that they want to compete for everything, this lowers the level of consciousness of the co-operative environment significantly. In short, money can bring out the worst in people.

Doesn't hurt to aspire to create one though. After all, in the long run, high-consciousness survival-strategies will out-compete and out-perform low-consciousness survival-strategies! You can turn this into a really nice Life Purpose yourself - to beat the corporate monopolies and solve problems created by them by beating their survival-strategy of winner-take-all competition using your new survival-strategy of genuine, authentic, trustworthy co-operation.

Edited December 19, 2020 by Parththakkar12

[Striving for more]

It seems  there's probably No giant stage green companies or monopolies ?

But there's clearly many stage green entrepreneurs. Like Being a life coach ect.. 

These entrepreneurs could easily be earning well, even millionaires but probably couldn't be filthy rich 

 

Edited December 19, 2020 by Striving for more

[Willie]

I think the closest example of that is Whole Foods. 

Being filthy rich or having a monopoly are concepts that are transcended in stage green because they are seen as greedy and unsustainable. A stage green monopoly is oxymoronic.

[tuckerwphotography]

Patagonia is an Orange corporation with a Green values culture. 
 

Maybe also some B-Corp businesses like Dr. Bronner’s soap, which recently donated a lot of money to fund psychedelic research.

[mmKay]

 

[Striving for more]

@tuckerwphotography Patagonia and North face are my favourite clothing brands. Super high quality. 

[Lyubov]

no they don't currently exist because there is a level of self reflection and consciousness required to be stage green that wouldn't allow for a company to do the things it has to do to become a massive conglomerate in a stage orange environment. don't get me wrong, there are very successful stage green businesses. a full stage green market place is decades away. probably not even in my lifetime. you need to have some stage orange paradigms to build as massive corporation in this day and age. it's the equivalent to needing to be stage red to take over and build a civilization 1000 years ago. it's not possible outside this paradigm given the context of the times. 

Edited December 21, 2020 by Lyubov

[DocWatts]

8 minutes ago, datamonster said:

Those would be the big dudes of silicon valley like elon musk, jeff bezos, bill Gates, etc.

Jeff Bazos is pure Orange imo. Elon Musk is more of blend of Orange and Green.

Bill Gates made his billions in an Orange paradigm, but due to his philanthropic work and his pledge to give away almost all of his Wealth to the poorest people in the World, that he's solidly Green by this point, maybe even Yellow in some respects.

Edited December 21, 2020 by DocWatts