This was inevitable. It’s already the de facto direction in most companies. Nobody can seriously run an already high-risk business while also seriously pursuing a big tent political agenda of any sort. And energy wasted on political theater serves neither business nor politics.https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1310301482101563392 …
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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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Venkatesh Rao @vgrCulture 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 survivableShow this thread1 reply 1 retweet 14 likesShow this thread -
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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Personally I think workers coercing their employers to do what the workers want, whatever that is, is net positive
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To be clear I also think woke signaling from companies is useless. But if that’s what the workers want to force their employer to do, good for them. Workers banding together and forcing employers to do things is how we got the New Deal, Great Society and Civil Rights
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I’m not arguing with one-tweet broad-brush grandstanding claims that compress 60 years of complex and contentious history with consequences that are highly open to debate
If that’s what you actually believe, err... go for it.
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