Yes, by starting or investing in a Social Business you can achieve the following benefits:
- Earn enough to pay off your college and biz schools loans over the next 40 years
- Earn enough to have an apartment, or house
- Earn enough to have children and educate them
- Be a good person
- Be cool
- Measure and manage others and be measured and managed as you have been since birth
Sad, beyond telling that this is apparently how the ideals of Millennials are being co-opted into business as nearly usual. Tell me there is more to impact investing than this. Well, there is the bubble too, for the financial services people, funds to sell on fee or commissions. The bubble too for consultants. Might it not be true, though, that sometimes virtue demands sacrifice? Yet, I get it. The loans need to be repaid, and no Pierre Omidayar or Grameen Bank will cut you an interest rate break or give you what bankers call "grace." To critique Wealth Bondage as a system goes nowhere except to the Dumpster, as no one knows better than I. So let us adopt the manic tone we heard before the dot.com bubble and blow the bubble harder and harder until it bursts. What have we but bubbles (real estate, then internet, then housing, then green jobs, then Solyndra) and the emerging reality that none of this is sustainable with or without a B Corp or two. B the Change.
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