In a time where the global economy is still reeling from the effects of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and tension between socio-economic classes are running high, capitalism is undergoing an examination. Is this economic system - which, according to Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, has in the span of 200 years shrunken the number of people living on $1 per day from 85 percent to 17 percent - too flawed or in large part obsolete? This is not the correct question, even though it is asked daily by academics, politicians, businesspeople and thinkers alike.