Woke, Inc. : inside corporate America's social justice scam

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Personal Author:

Ramaswamy, Vivek

Physical Description:

vii, 358 pages ; 23 cm.

Summary:

"A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism. There’s a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every advertisement we see and every product we buy, from our morning coffee to a new pair of shoes. “Stakeholder capitalism” makes rosy promises of a better, more diverse, environmentally-friendly world, but in reality this ideology championed by America’s business and political leaders robs us of our money, our voice, and our identity. Vivek Ramaswamy is a traitor to his class. He’s founded multibillion-dollar enterprises, led a biotech company as CEO, he became a hedge fund partner in his 20s, trained as a scientist at Harvard and a lawyer at Yale, and grew up the child of immigrants in a small town in Ohio. Now he takes us behind the scenes into corporate boardrooms and five-star conferences, into Ivy League classrooms and secretive nonprofits, to reveal the defining scam of our century." --

Contents:

Introduction: The woke-industrial complex -- The Goldman rule -- How I became a capitalist -- What's the purpose of a corporation? -- The rise of the managerial class -- The ESG bubble -- An arranged marriage -- Henchman of the woke-industrial complex -- When dictators become stakeholders -- The silicon leviathan -- Wokeness is like a religion -- Actually, wokeness is literally a religion -- Critical diversity theory -- Woke consumerism and the big sort -- The bastardization of service -- Who are we?

Subject Term:

Business and politics

Corporations -- Political aspects.

Consumption (Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Publication Info:

New York : Center Street, 2021.

Subject:

Business and politics

Corporations -- Political aspects.

Consumption (Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Business -- Political aspects

Politics and business

Business corporations

C corporations

Corporations, Business

Corporations, Public

Limited companies

Publicly held corporations

Publicly traded corporations

Public limited companies

Stock corporations

Subchapter C corporations

Consumer demand

Consumer spending

Consumerism

Spending, Consumer

SAILS ISBN:

9781546090786

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In this New York Times bestseller, a young and successful entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism.

There's a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every advertisement we see and every product we buy, from our morning coffee to a new pair of shoes. "Stakeholder capitalism" makes rosy promises of a better, more diverse, environmentally-friendly world, but in reality this ideology championed by America's business and political leaders robs us of our money, our voice, and our identity.

Vivek Ramaswamy is a traitor to his class. He's founded multibillion-dollar enterprises, led a biotech company as CEO, he became a hedge fund partner in his 20s, trained as a scientist at Harvard and a lawyer at Yale, and grew up the child of immigrants in a small town in Ohio. Now he takes us behind the scenes into corporate boardrooms and five-star conferences, into Ivy League classrooms and secretive nonprofits, to reveal the defining scam of our century.

The modern woke-industrial complex divides us as a people. By mixing morality with consumerism, America's elites prey on our innermost insecurities about who we really are. They sell us cheap social causes and skin-deep identities to satisfy our hunger for a cause and our search for meaning, at a moment when we as Americans lack both.

This book not only rips back the curtain on the new corporatist agenda, it offers a better way forward. America's elites may want to sort us into demographic boxes, but we don't have to stay there. Woke, Inc . begins as a critique of stakeholder capitalism and ends with an exploration of what it means to be an American today--a journey that begins with cynicism and ends with hope.

Introduction The Woke-Industrial Complex	p. 1
Chapter 1 The Goldman Rule	p. 11
Chapter 2 How I Became a Capitalist	p. 40
Chapter 3 What's the Purpose of a Corporation?	p. 56
Chapter 4 The Rise of the Managerial Class	p. 82
Chapter 5 The ESG Bubble	p. 106
Chapter 6 An Arranged Marriage	p. 126
Chapter 7 Henchmen of the Woke-Industrial Complex	p. 141
Chapter 8 When Dictators Become Stakeholders	p. 157
Chapter 9 The Silicon Leviathan	p. 182
Chapter 10 Wokeness Is Like a Religion	p. 215
Chapter 11 Actually, Wokeness Is Literally a Religion	p. 240
Chapter 12 Critical Diversity Theory	p. 261
Chapter 13 Woke Consumerism and the Big Sort	p. 274
Chapter 14 The Bastardization of Service	p. 296
Chapter 15 Who Are We?	p. 319
Notes	p. 329
Acknowledgments	p. 355
About the Author	p. 357

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