I hope this is a rude wake-up call to every other company
Agree with that too.
It is very important to distinguish between those just doing what is necessary to survive, and those actually pushing the agenda.
In America, today, you CANNOT just be a business and do your thing. Building the best damn mouse trap at the best price, with the best warranty and customer service, using a US work force, is NOT good enough.
There are so many different aspects where you can be attacked, even fined, shut down, smeared in the media, if you do not to some degree play along with these stupid social fads and political games. If your mouse trap wasn’t made employing enough blacks and females, you could have the EEOC breathing down your back. Depending on the issue, the FTC, FCC, DOJ (FBI or DEA), FDA, FAA, DHS and the TSA, Department of State, the IRS, OHSA, DOT, CDC and a plethora of state and city folks could be jumping in your businesses main lobby making demands, “or else.” If you think I’m over exaggeration, think Covid. Could you really not play along?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/09/28/bidens-vax-mandate-to-be-enforced-by-fining-companies-70000-to-700000/?sh=a348b001c0d4 Forced vaccines and testing.
https://www.kake.com/story/41973801/from-a-25000-fine-to-a-warning-how-are-states-enforcing-the-coronavirus-stay-at-home-orders Forced social distancing and closures.
https://www.tsa.gov/coronavirus/penalty-mask Forced masks with fines for non compliance...
You are FORCED to play along, largely because government with its broad scope of regulatory powers today, total invasion of privacy (mass data collection), and size ends up butting in if you don’t.
Even if you are willing to lose customers and want to stand strong, you end up getting fined and face daunting legal expenses, if they do not outright shut you down: https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/02/politics/scotus-hobby-lobby-impacts/index.html
The problem is simply that government is used as a club to make people conform on literally every idiot fad today, and using arguments of social justice/equality (race, sex, national origin, sexual orientation), climate change/environment, national security/public safety, or save the children, you can pretty much make anything into one of those.
Hell, you can use mental health of the children to justify sex changes and hormone treatments for under age minors without parental consent! The argument being that if you don’t do what the minor feels, they might be really sad and hurt themselves or suffer from a low self-esteem. It’s ridiculous, but that’s the country we live in today. Do you think that if you’re a hospital or MD and tell the CDC to go F-themselves regards some of their politically motivated data collection (i.e. asking children about guns in the home, etc), that this would go over well?
***The point being, you need to be selective regards who to go after, since EVERYONE is playing along to some degree, even the good guys. There’s just no way around that if you’re a large business, on the national stage and have a physical presence.***