If you don’t like what they say outside of the context where they’re seen as speaking for you, you can actually simply distance yourself without any loss. If your CEO declares that vanilla is the official icecream flavor of Acme, inc. but you prefer strawberry, you can... say so.
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When a company speaks through it’s PR apparatus, it’s mainly the execs and board members speaking. Employees can choose to walk away, customers can stop using the product, the company can accept the cost of missing out on some talent, shareholders can dump shares.
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If you want to debase words so they become commodious enough to fit your views without you having to pay a real cost like quitting a job, don’t complain if they stop being useful for pointing to things of meaning things. That’s what debasement means.
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Words that mean everything to everybody eventually mean nothing to anybody. And words that speak meaninglessly for power don’t share that power among all being spoken for. They erode that power in proportion to the abuse.
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