This isn't even some bold moral stance--I wouldn't expect that from a big corporation--"being able to draw from the widest pool of talent" and "creating a culture of inclusiveness" is just basic good business strategy www.businessinsider.com/coca-cola-wa... - ThreadSky

prankster36.bsky.social • 1 day ago

This isn't even some bold moral stance--I wouldn't expect that from a big corporation--"being able to draw from the widest pool of talent" and "creating a culture of inclusiveness" is just basic good business strategy

https://www.businessinsider.com/coca-cola-warns-negative-impact-dei-changes-filing-2025-2

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fizzvstheworld.bsky.social•1 day ago

RACISTS ARE A FINITE REVENUE STREAM

prankster36.bsky.social•1 day ago

The fact that big businesses DON'T always embrace the most inclusive policies, both for hiring and marketing, is a good indicator of how capitalism doesn't actually pursue the most rational profit motives and is in fact ideologically driven

prankster36.bsky.social•1 day ago

The lengths you have to go to to make a product profitable when you are specifically excluding women, PoC, LGBT+ people, etc., outside of some very very specific niches, requires an awful lot of cultural contortion and, frequently, government interference

prankster36.bsky.social•1 day ago

Don't want to paint "rational self-interest" or corporate greed as the thing that will naturally save us from the Nazis but it's another way in which the "anti-DEI" bullshit is swimming against the tide and likely won't last

prankster36.bsky.social•1 day ago

I couldn't help but notice that in that article where Andreessen complained about how all the people coming up in his companies were now "woke" and he was going to put a stop to it, he lumped together basic inclusiveness with wanting more moral business practices, which are not the same thing

prankster36.bsky.social•1 day ago

"DEI" was itself a bit of sleight-of-hand, a compromise tossed to the masses that would allow corporations to continue to ravage the environment and economy while appearing "caring", and Andreessen is apparently too dumb and petulant to realize that

nemalki.bsky.social•1 day ago

Man, imagine if Coca-Cola did go against diversity, equity, and inclusion when they're based in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the biggest cities in the country with a prominent Black population.

That would be self-destructive as hell.

prankster36.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean, to be clear, there's obviously a powerful wind blowing against "diversity" as a cultural thing, from the top down, and it could potentially be easier for a corporation to roll with it in the short term. I in no way trust them to genuinely fight against the Nazis.

prankster36.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's just that it makes no sense in the long term to plant a flag against "DEI"--the cultural bulwarks that let wealthy corporate owners get away with that stuff are still tumbling despite everything. But corporations still might see value in going along with it in the short term.

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