Mackey: Intellectuals Have Historically Been the Class Enemy of Business
John Mackey · Whole Foods Co-Founder & CEO John Mackey: Conscious Capitalism and Repairing America's Division · Joe Lonsdale · Sep 15, 2021 · at 15:34
Whole Foods co-founder John Mackey explains historical and cultural hostility toward business and free markets.
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“The intellectuals who've always been the class enemy of business. The genie got out of the bottle back in the Industrial Revolution, and there was about a, as Deidre McCloskey points out, another one of the great economists had a big impact on me. As she points out the intellectuals have almost always hated business throughout all time.”
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