Having interviewed Nike workers, I would hope the company applies this beautiful slogan and Kaepernick’s example to its labor practices.https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7/status/1036695513251434498 …
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If Nike wants to be more like Kaepernick, it should follow his example and publicly name some foundational beliefs for which it is truly willing to sacrifice everything. That would be a significant statement, because it would throw shareholder primacy out the window.
Some may say Kaepernick is being co-opted. But I would be open to hearing if Nike has any intentions of having him co-opt the company instead. Having him change it. Why hire a guy merely to endorse you when you can get him to teach you?
“We all complain. We’re disposable. They don’t care” — a @Nike employee I spoke to about how the company kept her pay low and hours low, and changed her hours with less notice than was legal, and made her keep free even when not paying her, preventing her taking a second job.
Such practices are utterly common in American life, often illegal, and never humane. I don’t know why companies that engage in such practices feel a need to sustain them while setting up foundations and branding social justice movements.
But if you’re going to do it, get the full value of what you’re paying for. Don’t just use Kaepernick’s face. Sit at that brave knee of his, and learn.
We also know Nike has been a hard place for women to work. This despite the well-branded work on the Girl Effect. https://nyti.ms/2HYqrVH?smid=nytcore-ios-share …
Maybe if Nike had just listened to women who worked for it and not made them miserable?
Read @gendereffect on that: https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Effect-Capitalism-Corporate-Development/dp/0520286391 …
Courage can’t be a side hustle. Nor virtue. Nor decency. We must end this culture of screwing people profitably by day and saving them charitably by moonlight.
Otherwise, Nike is standing up for the idea that the police should treat with dignity some of the very people it refuses to treat with dignity itself.
And more about my book on the subject, WINNERS TAKE ALL, here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539747/winners-take-all-by-anand-giridharadas/9780451493248/ …
Goldman Sachs and “honor” should never be in the same sentence.
This right here! So often, initiatives like that value you only the top down approach to knowledge exchange. It is arrogance at its finest. Enjoying your book so far. Underlining like crazy.
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