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To: Gen.Blather

>>Corporations simply want to make money.

That’s a 20th century notion.

The Left will tell you that all media and all corporations are “conservative” because they are all “capitalist”

I’ve seen plenty of edicts and agendas in the corporate world that have zero zip nada to do with economic advacement.

“Rev” Al Sharpton used to shake down corporations with threats of protests. Write him a check and his arguments would stop (and the situations would remain unresolved).

Think Hillary Clinton once sat on the board at Walmart because she was an economics whiz?

Today the board and offices are filled with agenda activists.


14 posted on 02/28/2021 4:38:17 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: a fool in paradise

“That’s a 20th century notion.”

I understand your point. Like anything so large as the combined corporate boards, no one generalization can be true.

I did notice one trait that seems to be universal, at least in the relatively large sample I was exposed to. If the board member, officer or manager would receive financial gain by meeting an objective that objective would be met even if it became obvious that the objective would damage the company in some way. This proved true even if the gain was as little as $100. (That comes from an actual event I was involved in. Meeting the objective cost the company about $25,000 and disrupted several people’s lives.)

Another general tendency is for companies to avoid any conflict or interaction with the outside world that they can not control. This is why employees who speak out publicly, or become a news item in themselves, are generally fired. I believe that is the reason so many boards go along with liberalism, simply to avoid and public exposure they can’t control.

Conservatives do not create any controversy by advocating conservatism and threatening “cancellation” like the liberals so often do. Thus, conservatism automatically fails in the corporate environment.

In order to stop this trend to liberalize corporations, an enforced law going after cancel culture advocates or doxers would be required. That simply won’t happen.

Me, I vote with my wallet. I haven’t bought any Coke or Disney or Starbucks or Penny’s product in years. But the list keeps getting longer. Eventually, I will be down to wearing and eating grass.


17 posted on 02/28/2021 5:10:21 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: a fool in paradise
In the case of Hillary Clinton being on the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart, that was during the era of Sam Walton, the founder, and a patriot who promoted American made merchandise. His choice of then Governor Bill Clinton's wife was likely a case of Realpolitik, given the reality of the firm being headquartered in Arkansas. Sam Walton's heirs have let the store chain become managed by MBAs who are generally liberal in politics, as is the case with most Fortune 500 firms.
42 posted on 02/28/2021 8:04:45 AM PST by Wallace T.
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