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The backlash is inevitable too, but needs to be patiently weathered and outlasted. Increase tax dollars and solve political problems at political loci.
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Culture war wrangling has unfortunately become a key element in my consulting. It is now the 4th, and youngest manifestation of bullshit jobs. Bullshit jobs evolve in one of 4 ways: automation, outsourcing, trumpification, and now: wokification. Only the first 2 are survivable
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The employee energy behind this stuff is 90% cluelessness about the real cost of serious political action and 10% bad-faith grifting that’s fine with destroying valuable businesses in pursuit of political careerism. Kill-the-host parasitism.
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There’s really only one kind of political action that belongs within business missions: climate action. And that’s because states simply lack both the knowledge and agency to decarbonize complex technological systems. Everything else is a drag that businesses are bad at.
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I’m a pretty narrow climate hawk. Big tent actions around carbon don’t work. But narrow efforts have a shot. If your business is high carbon, work on that. Otherwise get on with building wealth and minimizing negative externalities. You don’t have to be a saint, OR an asshole.
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So trawling through the backstory this appears to be about a threatened walkout over wanting the company to issue a statement over George Floyd. Personally I suspect coerced business PR statements are probably a net negative for such events. Theater replacing meaningful action.
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The scope creep of such social responsibility only ever goes up, never down. And because it solve the actual problem , it’s an accumulating deadweight loss tax. In heavily regulated economies this leads to social/political staffing bloat. In competitive ones, it kills companies.
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Businesses are not the tools for solving most political problems. Tax them more, solve problems with tax $. Flip the economics. If you had a million dollars to address structural injustice in policing, would you use it to fund tax breaks to companies in return for PR statements??
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