uh there are some uh people who in within the EOC in uh different parts of the world who can view capitalism is not a system you want to just add on to and make better. They would like to see it dismantled and transformed into something completely different. And so they see it a little bit as obviously as the evil parts of capitalism. And myself as an American entrepreneur, I've seen some of the very most positive things of capitalism in the terms of people who implement it, but also are so generous and so um focused on making the world a better place.
And I've experienced that in rural America and small towns where I grew up seeing entrepreneurs being part of the community and they were they were in the American system and and it worked and people loved the community that they built. So I can have no criticism for someone who's wanting to try to make the world better as an individual as an individ individual owner um to to to to have that kind of vision. What I would say is this is that the EOC is that and a little bit more.
And the challenge there on the EOC is not to remain so individualistic. You know, one thing about an individual is that you're limited by your own self, by your own capital, by what you can do. And there's nothing wrong with that. You can create this, you know, this work environment that that happens with. But the EOCC mentality is this idea of developing uh relationships among businesses even and and being able to uh to bring resources diff different parts of the world if we choose.
You know I as an entrepreneur in freedom in the EOC can send support to Kenya and work with the EOC in Kenya as a partner to make something happen. And that's beautiful and it's powerful and it builds a little bit of a united world in that process and and and the idea there is if we have enough of that going on even in a small scale and the EOC is a smallcale operation you know a thousand plus businesses but not super big compared to the whole world economy but we can we could begin to operate that and we can have an influence you know um some of us had made have made uh presentations at the United Nations on the economy of communion.
How did that happen? Well, it did because part of our roots in the folklore movement, they've been part of the United Nations for decades and and they've brought the EOC into the United Nations and explained how we operate. Well, we're a small thing, but we can influence thought and action based on our breadth of scope. We cover the world even though not very densely but we do cover the world. So, so I I think individualistic action rooted toward good is is a wonderful thing and and part of the EOC has that still in there, but it has more.
There's more to take advantage of. And those are beautiful things as well. And I invite people to this lifestyle of communion where you don't try to do it all yourself. You do it in in a communal way and you learn a lot of things and you can accomplish even more.
