‘Go woke, go broke’ is no longer true. Socially aware capitalism is the future of corporate responsibility

The Conversation ^ | 8/3/25 | Peter Underwood

[Frank Drebin]

If you all’s way is so good, Peterhead, how come you’re always having to rebrand it?

[PeterPrinciple]

Conservative Capitalists should NEVER support the concept of big Corporations and Corporatism or confuse it with Capitalism. They are trying to brainwash us into believing they are the same principle.

They are NOT...

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Folks,

Big business and big govt go hand in hand. Big business thrives on more regulation as it drives small business out of of business.

I support Trump mostly for his goal of reducing regulations and returning power back to states.. It is not in the headlines but look for those two things in everything he does. It is always there.

[CodeToad]

Liberalism is a support group for introverts.

[AppyPappy]

Discrimination as a valid practice according to professors.

[TalBlack]

They are embedding social, environmental and ethical considerations into their business strategies .

Oh it’s just another Commie vector. Who’s defining all of those things?

[Red Badger]

Intellectual Academics never get anything right because they are sealed inside a socialist bubble............

[1Old Pro]

The writer is an idiot.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Definitely. A sales pitch for this guy’s next consultant job. To another woke company.

[dennisw]

Pithy and so true!

[napscoordinator]

Woke is a trend. It’s ran it course. As with all trends, it will be back in some form in the future.

[Seruzawa]

BS is BS no matter how it is presented.

[jmaroneps37]

Go away and stop making a fool of yourself.

[AndyTheBear]

It implies that companies face a binary choice: embrace progressive values or pursue profit.

Wrong. It means when you taint a product that has nothing to do with ideology with your ideology people get sick of your product and you go broke.

[chopperk]

BS, it is very true.

[Savage Beast]

No, Peter, “go woke, go broke” is not merely a zeitgeist cliché; it’s a reaffirmation of ancient and eternal enlightenment: Seek Truth, Truth for its own sake, and forgo delusion.

[Openurmind]

Yep...

[Openurmind]

“Woke is a trend. It’s ran it course. As with all trends, it will be back in some form in the future.”

Absolutely right. Business doesn’t care about anything except chasing the market trend that has the brightest lights and loudest siren. They will sell their own children to make a buck if that is the current trend.

[dfwgator]

Businesses also don’t want controversy. And the Left gets to decide what is controversial.

[50sDad]

Inn other news today, liberal experts explained that the sky is really GREEN, and you are a horrible -ist -phobe if you think differently, just because of thousands of years of recorded history and the evidence of your own eyes.

[9YearLurker]

That’s why free markets and property rights instead of “capitalism” should be used where needed.