Common good banks are designed and guided by many philosophical and pragmatic principles. Here are some of the most important ones:
Love.
Dedication to the common good.
Trains everyone to think well about the greater good.
Brings people together.
Fosters participation in democracy.
Speaks to people's hearts.
Works with humans at our current level of spiritual and social evolution.
Aligns individual profit with profit to the community, allowing members to expand the scope of their giving, while benefiting personally as well.
Competes effectively within the existing economy.
Redirects wealth to leverage funding for the common good.
Democratic control of policy and profits; with professional control of the business.
Potential for rapid initial growth, without harming the environment and without siphoning wealth from the poor to the already rich.
"Recall the face of the poorest and the most helpless person whom you have seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to that person. Will he or she be able to gain anything by it?" — Mohandas K. Gandhi
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