The Enlightened Capitalist: An Introduction To How The World Really Works

Mastering the art and science of EEPPSA (efficiency, effectiveness, precision, productivity, and self-awareness)

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I am a bit of a tortured soul. I live with a socialist heart and a capitalist mind. Never having been a big fan of rigid ideological thinking I don’t believe it serves anyone nor the world to claim that I am one or the other.

I learned in my half-century of Zen and Taoist studies, and as a successful capitalist and philanthropist that most humans are pulled to and fro by lust, anger, greed, envy, vanity, attachment, and ego.

Though capitalism can magnify these traits to truly dysfunctional and even dangerous levels, socialism, or in the extreme Marxism will produce the same results or with the right intention, reduce these tendencies.

To understand what I am proposing here you do not need to be a brilliant economist, a great spiritual teacher, or some visionary thinker.

If you read the book Territorial Imperative (1966), by the anthropology and behavioral scientist Robert Ardrey; the writings concerning…