The Limits of John Mackey’s Brand of Enlightened Capitalism

Can Amazon-owned Whole Foods ever live up to its founder’s ideals?

David Zax
Marker
Published in
11 min readOct 19, 2020

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CEO John Mackey
Illustration: Franziska Barczyk

If ever there were a moment in which the leaders of corporate America have been exploring a more enlightened form of capitalism — debating it, promising it, testing it, debunking it, retracting it, reviving it, promising it again — that moment is surely…

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David Zax
Marker

David is a writer, researcher, and consultant in Brooklyn.