 I always find it fascinating when CEOs and multi-millionaires, they speak up about how bad socialism is and they just can't understand or even fathom why anyone would see the appeal of socialism when our capitalist society has been so phenomenal to them. Like they're in that bubble and they're incapable of getting outside of it. So the whole food CEO decided to speak up and condemn socialism and he wants to make sure that we kind of put a cap on this growing enthusiasm for socialism before it's too late. So the New York Post's Noah Mansgar reports, whole food CEO John Mackey urged his fellow corporate leaders to join him in beating back the rising tide of socialism and ideology he fears will plunge the world into poverty. That's ironic. In a recent interview with the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Mackey said business bosses need to more aggressively push back against progressives increasing popular critiques of capitalism, a system he called the greatest thing that humanity's ever created. Interesting. Asked whether the business world's culture needs to change, the grocery tycoon replied, it needs to evolve, otherwise the socialists are going to take over. That's how I see it. And that's the path of poverty. They talk about trickle down wealth, but socialism is trickle up poverty, he said. It just impoverishes everything. We've told a bad narrative and we've let the enemies of business and the enemies of capitalism put out a narrative about us that's wrong, it's inaccurate and it's doing tremendous damage to the minds of young people, Mackey added. We have to counter that. The 67 year old Whole Foods co-founder made the remark while promoting his latest book Conscious Leadership. During a November 24th virtual event with the American Enterprise Institute, a right leaning think tank that supports free market policies. Mackey, who was worth more than $75 million when Amazon announced its purchase of Whole Foods in 2017, according to Forbes, complained that entrepreneurs have been universally vilified as greedy when many of them start businesses, mostly because they're passionate about something, not just to get rich. Now, embedded in his statements, you can tell that there's a sense, a slight sense of self-awareness. He realizes that what they're doing right now is turning people off to capitalism. And it is. You're being openly greedy and we see it and you want to maybe try to be better in terms of marketing capitalism because it's just kind of been the norm for so long and questioning capitalism has been blasphemous that you could really basically be openly greedy and that's celebrated almost. But now things are changing because a late stage capitalist society can only exist so long before it eats itself and the poor get so hungry that they have nothing left to eat but the rich. I think he realizes that. But what's interesting is that he's concerned, trolling about how socialism will lead to mass poverty. But I mean, look around you, look at what's happening in our capitalist system. 14 million American households could face eviction, cars lined up for miles and waited for hours just to receive a box of food on Thanksgiving. We're reaching record high levels of unemployment and just 100 corporations are responsible for most of the Earth's greenhouse gas emissions. Socialism didn't do this. Capitalism did this. We're literally destroying the only planet that we have for what? So a handful of oligarchs can have unlimited wealth. That's ridiculous. People hate capitalism because it has failed. The promises of capitalism have not bared out. Fifty nine Americans own more wealth than a half of the country. So now the American dream is dead. Capitalism got so big that it's literally eating itself. Six media conglomerates own most news outlets. Thirteen companies own most fast food restaurants. I mean, the promise of competition is completely dead. And capitalism isn't breeding the innovation that we promised it would. There's literally a love story about fucking KFC and Colonel Sanders. Capitalism has been a complete and utter failure. And honestly, I think that he's kind of onto something. If oligarchs gave the peasants more than just crumbs, there wouldn't be this much of an urgency to get rid of capitalism. But because capitalism has deprived millions of people and billions globally of basic necessities that human beings deserve and have a right to, well, now you see that it's unsustainable. People know that we can't continue on this trajectory of unfettered capitalism. So even if they tried to rein it in, I think it's too late. Like even if you give us social democracy, it's too late. Like people see that capitalism is a scam. It's a huge scam. It benefits a select few group of individuals. And sure, at first, capitalism, it works out fine. But over time, capitalism does what it always will do. Eat the political system that it's born in. And what this whole food CEO doesn't realize is that once people no longer have a say in democracy, then it's too late. You can't win us back under these circumstances. So it's just, it's hilarious because we have this multimillionaire who has benefited from capitalism. He's wondering, oh my God, why do people hate capitalism? I don't know. It seems like you know that we hate capitalism. And you know that capitalism, it's clearly a bad look. But what he is basically thinking, I suspect, is that capitalism just needs a better marketing scheme. A new PR firm to do its presentations for it. But that's not it. That's not it. If you don't give people tangibles, capitalism isn't going to last because they will take down the system. It might not happen now. It might not happen decades from now or 100 years from now. But it is inevitable because our current trajectory that we are on, that our late-stage capitalist society is on, is unsustainable.