
Working towards a Conscious Economy
With Wire Group we want to contribute to a Conscious Economy. Why? What do we mean by it?
Wire Group defines a Conscious Economy as a value-driven economy that is based on a holistic worldview: an economy that takes the whole/totality and the interrelationship between things as its starting point. From the awareness of the whole and the value of all life, the essence of a Conscious Economy is multiple value creation. In other words: every Euro of generated financial profit is also a reflection of created social and/or ecological value, always.
This holistic interpretation of economy, profit & value transcends the linear and harmful strategy of the current model: ‘taking’ for the sake of maximizing financial profit and shareholder value at the expense of social and ecological resources. The aim of the Conscious Economy is: how can we as humanity activate an economic model that reflects our responsibility as co-inhabitant, guardian and protector of our planet?
All things considered, it is quite remarkable that we have gradually embraced an economic model that systematically ignores real input and impact on ‘life’ and -real- well-being. By making principles such as financial profit and shareholder value dominant, we damage our living environment – and we still collectively find that legitimate. We disconnect our economic system from the life of which we are a part and see ourselves as dominant over the nature from which we ourselves originate. Under the guise of desirable ‘economic growth’, we are self-destructive. That does not display much consciousness. ‘Growth’ based on self-destruction is an unnatural principle. Assuming only financial profit is short-sighted, harmful and far from ‘a sustainable growth model’, we now know.
And now? Time to wake up! To increase our individual and collective consciousness and to focus on transforming the system. If this is what we have created so far, what are we going to do fundamentally differently and how? The Conscious Economy does not start with ready-made answers, but mainly with good questions. From both in-depth and practical research: where do current economic principles fall short and which new forms and principles reflect the world & economy we envision? In this blog series we share about our own and shared quest, practice, dilemmas and findings on the road to a Conscious Economy.