How companies exploit ‘woke values’ to pursue profit and power

Goldman s timing was also impeccable in another way. Its diversity quota proclamation stole the headlines from a much less flattering event: Goldman had just agreed to pay $5 billion in fines to governments around the world for its role in a scheme stealing billions from the Malaysian people. Goldman reportedly turned a willfully blind eye as corrupt Malaysian officials immediately turned the fund into their own private piggy bank. Ironically, some of that money literally ended up funding Martin Scorsese s 2013 movie The Wolf of Wall Street.  

As one Redditor on the now-infamous forum WallStreetBets observed, They want to make sure that any IPO they bring to market has a brown or black person on the board of the company they are IPOing, but are perfectly okay with ripping off millions of Malaysians by engineering a slush fund for an oil tycoon s jewelry collection and private jet. Well, yes. Welcome to the woke-industrial complex. 

Woke capitalism is really just crony capitalism 2.0. Here s how it works: Big business uses progressive-friendly values to deflect attention from their own monolithic pursuit of profit and power. 

via nypost.com

The monolithic pursuit of profit doesn’t bother me, but the power does.