Post Capitalist Entrepreneurship
I was speaking to an anthropology student about how I believe that anthropologist will play a key role in preparing us for the post-capitalist future. The conversation started after I told them I was an entrepreneur and they asked what was my business and I told them it’s a social organism not a business.
Social organism is a name I made up because calling what I made a business would imply that it’s purpose is to fulfil a profit motive and would constrain it to adhering to toxic and honestly stupid capitalist principles.
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I think we call things businesses when they’re really just groups of people working towards a shared vision. But designating some things as businesses and other things as NOT businesses is a way for capitalism to dictate what we as people are allowed to do and not do with our own time and energy.
I think startups, grassroots groups, political parties, religious groups, and institutions are all social organisms and their leaders are all performing entrepreneurship.
Anything should be allowed to exist as long as enough people want it to exist. But under capitalism things can only exist if they’re backed by people with capital. Which means capitalist (ie, billionaires) have an unfair and unequal say in what our own time and energy is put toward creating in our society.
Not to mention the only way these capitalist have their billions of dollars of capital is because they’re modern day monarchs and most of them inherited their capital from the enslavement of people and/or from descending from literal medieval monarchs.
