Here's a great example of #Leftist politics being incredibly myopic.
#Corporate#Pride is nonsense, sure. However, the critique of it is wildly off base.
#Corporations are no people. They are, basically, #AI. They respond only to incentives. The reason they are promoting pride in the first place is to make money.
So, one way they make money is with good #PR. They are trying to spend money to buy good will.
These actions have positive knock on effects. It normalizes being #Queer in a way that is incredibly broad. So, it is a positive for #LGBTQ people.
They naturally get criticism from conservatives, but the cost is worth it to them for the good will.
Then come along people who are the exact target of the ads in the first place complaining about the exact same ads.
The result is predictable. Over and over again I see people this year saying the lack of pride merch, ads, etc from corporations this year is chilling.
What the fuck did you think was going to happen? It's a corporation, and it responds entirely and only to incentives. That means it should be praised for anything positive it does and critiqued for anything negative it does.
Expecting a corporation to celebrate pride "because it's right" is a fundamental category error, as is expecting a corporation to be consistent with its policies. Corporations aren't moral agents, they are machines which are naturally incentivized to maximize evil.
“As far as I'm concerned, corporations who use advertising and marketing dollars to pound their chests about their trendy brand purpose cause-du-jour, but employ legions of lawyers to avoid the true cost of improving society are nothing but scum.” The Ad Contrarian #tax#corporations#taxcorporations
Rebecca Crosby and Judd Legum offer a list of 50 prominent corporations that have donated $23,273,400 to campaigns and PACs of election deniers since January 6, 2021. "Some of the largest contributors to election deniers are also some of the country's leading companies, including AT&T, Comcast, Walmart, and Microsoft."
@wdlindsy ie you didn’t read the article you posted.
I wasn’t asking you a question it was rhetorical. I need to learn how to use this platform better so my comments don’t appear to be directed at the OP.
Privately-managed giant corporations are very bad for society. Such giant entities should not be managed by a few people, for the benefit of a few people, because they affect everyone.
They should be managed by society, for the good of society.
#POTUS Biden on Mon called for major new spending initiatives to lower costs for #healthcare, #ChildCare & #housing & enough new taxes on the wealthy & major corporations to pay for those proposals & also shave $3 trillion off the #NationalDebt over the next decade.
That spending would be more than offset by dramatically increasing taxes on the wealthiest individuals & corporations, the WH said. #Biden’s #budget would increase the minimum tax on billion-dollar corporations to 21% from 15%. It would raise taxes on US multinationals’ foreign income to 21% from 10.5%, & eliminate some #TaxDeductions for executive compensation.
@GrrlScientist
Amazing that no-one ever mentions the fact of the growing nuclear waste dumps... They exist, if not in your backyard, then someone else's.
"At the end of 2023, Americans were paying at least 30% more for beef, pork, and poultry products than they were in 2020.
Why? Just four companies now control processing of 80 percent of beef, nearly 70 percent of pork, and almost 60 percent of poultry. So of course, it’s easy for them to coordinate price increases and prevent price cuts."
As Edward Luce rightly says, “The 1930s ought to have buried the idea that business is a bulwark against autocracy.” Luce points to the behavior of his own Financial Times back then — praising Mussolini and "fascism's gift of order and progress."
That was the name given to the loose-knit group of military leaders, finance guys, and establishment GOP congressional leaders who, back in 2017, thought that by taking jobs in the Trump administration they could, as Axios put it, 'protect Trump and the nation from disaster.'”
"In the weeks ahead, you are going to be introduced to
'Committee To Save America 2.0: We Protect. We Serve. We Care.'
The new committee will be weaker and more pliant than its predecessor. But like the previous version, it will serve the purpose of comforting the Republican elites and Wall Street Journal–reading voters who want to go to bed at night without worrying that they might be accidentally ending the American experiment."