Loving diversity is pretty low to no cost. Companies with diverse product lines already get this -- segment the market! But paying taxes and paying workers? That's a tough one. Real tough. Not an easy one for sure.
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"Corporate social responsibility" is widespread because it is either no-cost or profit-generating. Your company's actual politics, which concern what it actually pays as tax revenue to the state, are going to be some Ayn Rand stuff. That's just life. Doing the work.
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This company is good on ____. But it isn't. It better be good on its profits and good to its stakeholders, though. And it's always wise to butter up the PRC, because that market is the tea, sis -- pure consumption without widespread "free speech"
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We talk about all these good things companies and even internet justice hustlers do as if they were actually "good." They're good in that they're good marketing. But companies in the real economy and influencers in the attention economy are amoral maximizers; it's all for $$$
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Imagine believing that Amazon dot com really cares if the world will be around after grandma's gone, mom! It can't; it doesn't. It just hits its KPIs for the quarter and lurches forward
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Please don't make the mistake that these abstract and human brands give two shits about you. They don't. They just need your dollars and eyeballs. But me... I'm different. I care too much. I love the work you do, and I know some people just say that, but I mean it.
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