Cardinal Turkson on Business Vocation | National Catholic Reporter

Cardinal Turkson on Business Vocation | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Interesting stuff by Cardinal Turkson.  Since I do a lot of writing and thinking in this are, I have a few comments.  In the end, business needs to not be just more ethical - it must transform who owns it, who controls it and how those people are selected.  If micro-enterprise can be cooperatively owed, so can large, global firms.  Indeed, enough large global firms, owned and democratically controlled by their employees will not provide microenterprise, it will educate the peasants, give them a job and give them a vote in the larger business.  Of course, that also makes them consumers - as capitalism does - but cooperative consumers usually purchase internally - including a modern house that might even produce food - which would provide everyone fulfilling work even after the house is paid for and a lifetime dividend income is secured.  Interestingly, because such cooperatives might include social services in lieu of external taxes - likely provided by the Church - the Koch brothers may even get on board with it.