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I think that in order to address that question, we have to step back and think about how we've understood and pondered both the problems and the solutions to these great social challenges that we face.
Now, I think many have seen business as the problem, or at least one of the problems, in many of the social challenges we face.
How have we tended to see the solutions to these social problems, these many issues that we face in society?
Indeed, the kind of unique organizational entity of this age is this tremendous rise of NGOs and social organizations.
What's the fundamental problem we have in dealing with these social problems?
Now what does this all have to do with social problems?
Well, one line of thinking is, let's take this profit and redeploy it into social problems.
But I've also, over the years, worked more and more on social issues.
I've worked on healthcare, the environment, economic development, reducing poverty, and as I worked more and more in the social field, I started seeing something that had a profound impact on me and my whole life, in a way.
The conventional wisdom in economics and the view in business has historically been that actually, there's a tradeoff between social performance and economic performance.
The conventional wisdom has been that business actually makes a profit by causing a social problem.
But the more deeply I got into all these social issues, one after another, and actually, the more I tried to address them myself, personally, in a few cases, through nonprofits that I was involved with, the more I found actually that the reality is the opposite.
Business does not profit from causing social problems, actually not in any fundamental sense.
The deeper we get into these issues, the more we start to understand that actually business profits from solving from social problems.
Issue by issue by issue, we start to learn that actually there's no trade-off between social progress and economic efficiency in any fundamental sense.
The deeper work, the new work, the new thinking on the interface between business and social problems is actually showing that there's a fundamental, deep synergy, particularly if you're not thinking in the very short run.
There's a fundamental opportunity for business today to impact and address these social problems, and this opportunity is the largest business opportunity we see in business.
This is what I call shared value: addressing a social issue with a business model.
Shared value is when we can create social value and economic value simultaneously.
It's finding those opportunities that will unleash the greatest possibility we have to actually address these social problems because we can scale.
Businesses got trapped into the conventional wisdom that they shouldn't worry about social problems, that this was sort of something on the side, that somebody else was doing it.
If we can break down this sort of divide, this unease, this tension, this sense that we're not fundamentally collaborating here in driving these social problems, we can break this down, and we finally, I think, can have solutions.
Finally, China is also providing innovative solutions to age-old social problems that the world faces.
So essentially, we can start from an anonymous face, offline or online, and we can use facial recognition to give a name to that anonymous face thanks to social media data.
We started from social media data, we combined it statistically with data from U.S. government social security, and we ended up predicting social security numbers, which in the United States are extremely sensitive information.
We created Facebook profiles, manipulating traits, then we started sending out résumés to companies in the U.S., and we detected, we monitored, whether they were searching for our candidates, and whether they were acting on the information they found on social media.
Discrimination was happening through social media for equally skilled candidates.
Again, marketers tell us that big data and social media are not just a paradise of profit for them, but a Garden of Eden for the rest of us.
And this is not only creating physical sameness, it's creating social sameness, because these buildings are more expensive to build, and it helped to create an affordability crisis in cities all over the world, including places like Vancouver.
I mean, we're all good citizens of social media, aren't we, where the currency is envy?
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