![]() ![]() We called ourselves Today’s Entrepreneurs ( Ondernemers van Nu) and we took a critical stance towards handing over even more power to multinational companies, and towards ongoing environmental degradation and socioeconomic inequality. So that’s why me and a couple of other entrepreneurs decided it was time to raise our voices. Which was odd, because the negative consequences of trade agreements like TTIP (and later CETA) on the environment and on equality were potentially massive. Strangely enough in my circles of green and social entrepreneurs no one really talked about it. It was 2015 when there was quite some public debate going on in Europe about TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in the making. Such a person (…) is putting himself in the difficult moral position of the kind hearted slave master. Think of a hundred variations of this example. Think of the person who runs an impact investment fund aimed at helping the poor, but is unwilling to make the connection, in his own head or out loud, between poverty and the business practices of the financiers on his advisory board. Think of the person who seeks to ‘change the world’ by doing what can be done within a bad system, but who is relatively silent about that system. Anand Giridharadas will speak in Rotterdam on October 16 and in Amsterdam on October 17 on behalf of Ondernemers van Nu and The Tipping Point Foundation. This article was first published on Medium in February. ![]()
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