r3.0
2 min readApr 19, 2021

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Hi Olaf, thanks for your kind words. We indeed need to do much better. There is one point that I am not agreeing with you, and that is that constantly offered notion by corporations that ‘multicapitalism does not provide the methods and data that businesses need’. It’s more true that corporations actively hindered these practices to be widely tested for over a decade. The methods do exist for many years, and corporations had all the time in the world to test, and add to the database by trials and wanting to generate the necessary data base. Now, as time is running out, and NONE of the standard setters did what’s necessary, r3.0 collaborates with UNRISD, to do the homework standard setters had nearly 20 years time for, but didn’t do a thing to support their (partially own set) principles. And what do we see? It IS possible, with a little effort, and precision will grow year by year. Our experience is that businesses still don’t want to spend time, capacity (and a bit of money) to gain that necessary clarity, as it would reveal the unsustainability of their busienss models due to exploiting perverse economic system incentives (and they take no effort to change them). My sympathy for corporations is therefore very limited. We contacted about 250 major businesses for the UNRISD project, about a dozen for-profit enterprises now work with us (plus another dozen social enterprises.). These are the true heroes. The rest of the argumentation we hear is ‘same, same, same’, the echo chamber of the system exploitation camp. No fantasy that systems incentives could collectively be changed and that new level playing fields could be achieved. We just tested it again. And it’s a sad sad story.

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