I’ve worked for large companies for most of my career. You begin to see patterns whenever you spend a lot of time somewhere, and in the corporate world, that pattern has been a gradual change in focus. The midwit level of company bureaucracy is always chasing fads, but these fads have gone from promising to bring more productive work to more “social change”. The latest incarnation is the full adoption of the Woke DIE creed – diversity, inclusion, and equity. These unholy anti-virtues are chanted so frequently they become filler words, replacing “uhm” and “like”, and they weren’t exactly filled with meaning to begin with.
With all of that in mind, I want to suggest that one of the many reasons for this latest fad getting such a grip on the corporate world is that it helps cover for stupidity, incompetence, and mediocrity. I’ve spent hours sitting in meetings where nothing of substance was said. Aside from being incredibly boring, these sessions are insulting; the people pretending to be leaders have no accomplishments, do no actual work, and are actively killing the host company and hurting real workers. They don’t even have the self-awareness to understand it.
The Woke cult uses threats of violence and punishment to avoid criticism, meaning stupid and incompetent people have immunity while anyone interested in the health of the company (even just for the sake of making a living) has little incentive to fight. You have a system that rewards stupid and irrelevant things, rewards empty rhetoric and incompetence, and punishes the very types of things that built the company in the first place.
The problem is self-correcting in a way, since companies that do this can’t compete, their proposals fail, and their sales decline. It hurts a lot of people along the way, but since the system in place is defended like a stronghold from any meaningful attack, I recommend that employees at these companies find side hustles rather than hoping things will turn around.
Antemodernist 
Corporations are a construct of the white male patriarchy.
All profits (property is theft) not confiscated by the state for reparations will be redistributed to the collective.
Forward! Yes we can.
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Complete nonsense.
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I work at a company in an industry that stands to gain nothing of value from DIE, even in the stupid “Diversity™ is our Strength™” hand-wavy way of pretending appointing various melanin shades and sexual deviants will magically increase profit. But we have a DIE committee nonetheless. It’s been around for some time now, and it occurs to me that this is almost certainly for corporate top cover. We don’t have the worthless meetings and struggle sessions. The committee exists and makes symbolic announcements but we don’t do anything different. We couldn’t, or we would quickly go out of business, and our corporate hierarchs are acutely aware of this. So it’s clear to me, they jumped on the fad train to keep from getting the woke laser light shining on them.
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I think that’s exactly what it’s all about. They pay homage to avoid conflict. They’re hearts aren’t really in it.
I guess we should be at least a little thankful for that.
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Reblogged this on muunyayo and commented:
Great read…
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Your article is 100% accurate. I worked in corporate healthcare for years. The people at the top create a top-heavy management system, then they have to create problems and solutions which justify their high salaries and positions. Most of the time, the “solutions” are just corporate bullsh*t. It’s meaningless hot air. I learned that the people doing the actual work – the nurses, doctors, and ancillary staff – are perfectly capable of running the units without management interference. We used to do it all the time.
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Recently I’ve heard this called the “managerial state”. In companies it kills itself but in anything subsidized by taxes (medicine certainly falls in here), it just grows uncontrollably.
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