Dalibor Tomko, On Purpose Fellow

The social enterprise movement is fantastic in the way that it’s slowly replacing the old fashioned ways of thinking, call it market capitalism. Whatever names we call them the old mindsets, they have a lot less space for cooperation, for the complexity of human nature and relations. So I love the social enterprise movement for taking the society one step closer to understanding how people can cooperate and solve complex challenges in a much wiser way. At the same time, my desire to participate in this is diminishing.

What I’m looking more at is the notion that all the problems that we are trying to solve through social enterprise, have one even more elegant solution. That is to stop messing around. If we replaced the frenetic action with a very humble balance of action and non-action, we basically stop causing those problems and there is very little left to solve. But … that isn’t a step that directly follows from the old fashion competitive market mindset. Social enterprise is a very important step in between.

Dalibor Tomko, On Purpose Fellow