[elefanten]

Appreciate the upthread perspectives from you both.

One thought that came to mind is that these are, in some sense, concentric frameworks that rely on each other: a society’s values, a political economy’s priorities and affordances, and how business is conducted.

Gut level, I feel that the social and political pieces circumscribe how business can viably be run. So, I can see a (perhaps very presently-rooted) perspective that we should strive to uphold and/or fight for certain goals and outcomes on the higher levels, but that pragmatically running a business within the existing (functioning, even if dysfunctional) framework may not allow the same opportunities as trying to evolve the sociopolitical.

Going further out on a limb, the higher levels evolve more slowly — often intergenerationally - and that makes it hard to see (or remember) which rules interact with which kinds of trade-offs.