i think it started out as a good-ish idea, but i was skeptical it would actually lead to anything useful. then, after a few years, it seemed to be still around

i think it started out as a good-ish idea, but i was skeptical it would actually lead to anything useful. then, after a few years, it seemed to be still around and maaaaybe even, I started to think, i was being proven wrong. It seemed like it/they (B Corps) might be somehow useful and/or still relevant. then, it finally seemed to me to be just about on par with corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives -- i.e. good public relations, not much else. i don't think it is/was a _total_ waste, maybe, if it has allowed at least some people to see that wishful thinking is just not going to get it done -- we need real corporate/financial reform, whether that comes thru legislation or more judicial decisions, etc. if i saw a B Corp today and they were trying to be taken seriously as a B Corp - that is, _because_ they were a B Corp - that would be pathetic. other types of orgs might be doing some interesting things - worker co-ops, union shops, etc. Ecosia, the tree-planting people -- are they any different from, say, Current Affairs, the socialist-in-name-only magazine that fired all its workers that were trying to organize? would Ecosia employees dare try to organize after they saw how unceremoniously the Current Affairs folks were dismissed? does going good/hippie stuff require employee control and/or ownership? prob not. but if you don't have any kind of democracy in the workplace, how can you realistically expect actually-good things to happen on a sustained basis? just keep hoping that the 'benevolent' CEO/owner doesn't decide to show his/her true colors?