Whole Foods CEO John Mackey on the ‘Siren Call’ of Socialism and Why Businesses Should Stay Apolitical

<p>“Socialism has been tried 41 times in the last 100 years … and there are exactly 41 failures,” says <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-whole-foods">Whole Foods</a> CEO John Mackey, author of “Conscious Capitalism.”</p> <p>In this interview, filmed at the FreedomFest in South Dakota, I sat down with Whole Foods CEO John Mackey to discuss the deceiving allure of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-socialism">socialism</a>, his philosophy of “conscious <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-capitalism">capitalism</a>,” and why Nordic countries are actually not socialist, contrary to what many may claim.</p> <p><a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/johnmackey" spellcheck="false" class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string">#JohnMackey</a> <a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/wholefoods" spellcheck="false" class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string">#WholeFoods</a> <a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/socialism" spellcheck="false" class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string">#Socialism</a> </p> <p> </p>