Zombie Businesses And The Rot Economy

What makes a Good Business?

It's a strange question to ask when you look at the world today.

There are many things we would "Assume" are Important for a Business to be Considered "Good"...

Yet, there are Many Companies that are Hailed for their Success without having those things.

What About Profit?

Well, there are many Businesses that are considered some of the most "Important" Businesses of our Time...

Which have been Losing Billions per year.

Take OpenAI, which lost around $5 Billion last year...

Without a Plan to Become Profitable anytime Soon, and their Expenses are Expected to Skyrocket Exponentially.

All with Products that have Not been Exceptional as New Launches have been More and More Disappointing.

They are not an Exception to the Rule.

Many Companies have Failed to produce any Profit for Years.

What About Innovation?

I think it depends on what you believe Innovation Means.

Most of the Top Companies have Failed to Create any Meaningful Innovation in Years.

Some of them Decades.

Often, instead of Making Any form of True Innovation, they just Buy Innovative Companies.

Yet, even Among those "Innovative" Companies, they are Frequently Bought and Killed, making those Innovations Disappear.

Then, when you look at the Products and Services that "Were" Considered Innovative at one time...

Have truly become Horrible Products.

The Opposite of Innovation.

What About A Dedicated Workforce Working At Its Potential?

I can assure you that is Absolutely Not Happening in Most Businesses Today.

Burnout is the Norm in Business Today.

Over 80% of the Workforce is Experiencing Burnout.

The Vast Majority of these individuals work at the Largest Businesses.

The Businesses that are Not Innovative.

The Businesses that are Not Profitable.

Which Proves that their Workforces are Not Operating at their Potential.

Humans have a Natural Desire to Seek their Potential.

But it is Not Happening in the Majority of Businesses.

What About Products and Services that are Beneficial to Humanity?

Most Businesses Today are Not Beneficial to Humans.

Quite Detrimental to our Health and Wellbeing.

In order to make Sales, companies frequently rely on Addiction Tactics.

Both Physically and Emotionally Addictive.

Purposefully Attack Humans at a Psychophysiological Level.

Use Subliminal Messaging to work against our Better Judgement.

Skew Scientific Research, Purposefully, to make their Products and Services Look Better on Paper and in Marketing.

It is Very Clear that most businesses are Not Dedicated to Improving the Lives of People.

Far more often, they are Focused on Exploiting Humans to Death...

Or at least as Close to Death as Possible while keeping People Addicted to their Products and Services.

So, what makes a "Good" Business?

Perhaps the question we "Should" be asking is...

Are There "Good" Businesses Today?

I was reading an Article today that described the Rot Economy.

You can think of it as an Elegant-Looking Mansion...

Except all around the Inside the Mansion is Rotting, down to the very Core of the Building.

What is Creating this Rot Economy?

What I call Zombie Businesses.

Themselves Rotting.

Consuming.

Always Consuming.

Destroying Everything and Everyone in their Paths.

From the Lowest to the Highest Parts of these Businesses.

Everyone is Suffering.

Employees.

Leaders.

Customers.

All consumed by the same Rotting Viral Infection.

All with a Desire for a Different Fate.

Yet, all Succumbing Further and Further to the Rot.

We See All the Problems...

We "Know" What it is We Want.

Freedom.

Hope.

Flourishing.

Yet, the Desire to Consume is so Deeply Entrenched in our Psyche and Habits.

Are there Good Businesses?

They Do Exist.

But they are Not the Norm.

There are Far More Zombie Businesses that Roam around in the Rot Economy.

Is it All Hopeless?

Shall we simply Continue to Decay until the Rot has Consumed Everything?

It is Possible.

However, I think more people are becoming Aware of the Problems.

They are Seeing the Rot.

They are looking for the Cure to Zombie Businesses.

It Exists.

I call it Regenerative Legacy Design.

It works In Practice.

The Cure Exists if we are willing to stand up Courageously in the Face of the Zombie Rot.

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