Woke Capitalism 

What's "hilarious" about it?

lmaaaaaaao

And of all the Jesus fishes too.

That's why they support all those lobbyists.

define woke

Woke us anything you don’t like

he is right wing ..... especially cause he is currently speaking on a right wing youtube channel

Mao hated gays and minorites. It's American McCarthyism.

MUCH thought was obviously put into this to present the complexity--and counter-productivity--of trying to infuse political motives into modern economics in an elegantly simple manner. Up to the rise of the recent and Machiavellian concept of "Woke-ism", American business may or may not have grown a "conscience" as such, but it has grown sophisticated enough to recognize that greater profits are realized by successfully meeting the demands of a target market and to do that, you have to know the demographics and needs of that market. Enter "Woke-ness", an inherently vacuous PR construct brilliantly confusing PERCEPTION and the reality of American business. IF THOSE RUNNING the MLB, in the example given, had understood the demographics of their target market and realized that such examination would reduce a perception-based move of the big game to Denver to an OUTCOME ACTUALLY PROMOTING HARM TO MINORITY BUSINESSES AND THEREFORE RACIST BY OUTCOME, one can only doubt that the move would have been made. It would be nice if ethics and a conscience could and would always accompany men and women into the board rooms but we are inherently flawed creatures and there is an argument to be made that capitalism--WITHOUT THE INTEREFERNCE OF THE IGNORANT WOKE-FOLK--will self-correct. The only question is, will the REAL desired outcome of Woke-ism--xocialism and the end of America as we know it--happen before sanity can be restored to our country?

It also doesn’t take into account Catholic Social Teaching

@@xuancarloshdz Absolutely, and it's often one of the major reasons we stay Roman Catholic in the first place.

@@violeta605 it's buying into Laissez-faire policy as if human beings could simply trust a system with little oversight. His views are not Catholic, They're Wall Street.

@@violeta605 Fantastic discussion, but it's important to note that this video is in the mold of Prager U and is attempting to tap their brand of "own the libs" demagoguery. Its target audience is the terminally online neoreactionaries whose entire political imagination is based on just doing the opposite of whatever the target of tone-policing liberals is. Nuance and most critically a balanced discussion about both the positive AND negative implications of an increasingly deregulated market is not one they want to have, because it would require ceding certain ground to political opponents, and thus losing their target audience. Put another way: Ross Douthat is not invited to the EDIFY Christmas party.

Why don't more people get on the "boycott" bandwagon in cases like this in order to regain OUR power?

@@christinekantrowitz5198 I would boycott coke but I’m addicted to Powerades

@@christinekantrowitz5198 Because there actually aren't that many people opposed to Coke and Nike's political stances.

@@warmlycalculated390 Because they get all their news from mainstream sources. It is proven that people adopt the first narrative they hear, which is usually CNN, ABC, MSNBC, Washington Post, New York Times, etc.

so its okay to protest and boycott when you disagree with a corp but when you do like their politics it others being woke?

That's quite the amusing pretzel you've twisted yourself into to reconcile your love of capitalism with your hatred of exactly what unfettered capitalism has wrought on society. It's basically the conservative version of leftists defending corporate censorship when it's of opinions they dislike.

@@christinekantrowitz5198 They never kept their "condescending beliefs" to themselves, it was just that previously their beliefs aligned with yours. Now that the needle has moved to the cultural left (while shifting the economic needle so far right it's practically off the spectrum), you begin to squirm.

@@warmlycalculated390 I resent anyone's beliefs--whatever they are--forced on me via their advertising and media-oversized voices, when all I want to do is to purchase a product...or not. Remember the days when the real (perceived) value in an athletic shoe was the only reason you bought it? Perhaps the mail and social media campaigns by certain "social action groups" (source of funding?) to influence shareholders into stressing the importance of particular social issues to voting board members have been working? If you do not know this is happening, do your research please. Perhaps there are some corporate exec's who've been frightened enough by these campaigns (as some sort of reflection of the target market's views) that, to keep sales up, they've adopted certain positions? Once again, it is via the interjection of--shall we call it politics? shall we call it propaganda?--that capitalism's inherent self-corrections are being manipulated. By whom? What's the goal? Figure it out, but since you've referenced an economic needle to the far right in America and a left leaning cultural needle that makes middle-Americans like me "squirm", I suspect you know the answer? And it's working, isn't it? You've already jumped to incorrect assumptions that divide us...yeah, the manipulation of others wields a mighty hand.

@@christinekantrowitz5198 Reinforcement of traditional gender/racial/familial/hierarchical norms and mores through advertising, bankrolling socially conservative politicians and organizations because of their economic conservativism, etc. A company like Nike is appealing to cultural liberalism not just for the good PR, but to divert attention away from the credible accusations of child slavery that have dogged the company for years.

@@warmlycalculated390 Why do you see everything right-of-center (the relative stance of Americans as noted by most scholars) as a movement to "consciously reinforce" something as opposed to a simple reflection of our society? Again, isn't that how we used to "sell shoes", for ex.? Why not changes as organic outgrowth of ideas discussed publicly? Witness the positive changes from MLK and the Civil Rights movements...yes, it took years, but that's what's involved in social acceptance and true inculturation. Without public buy-in, you have China, Russia, Venezuela, the list goes on. And just what is the quality of life for citizens there? Enter social manipulation in the US via hidden money behind certain social activists prompting forays into some board rooms, ads, associations, the list is long--and, surprise, surprise, it has netted anger, even violence, as witness last summer's events. Change is productive, but not when you alone decide what those changes should be and you alone lay out a hidden agenda to foist them upon a population without their participation, as in China, Russia, Venezuela. Ask those who have emigrated here FROM there...There are opportunities HERE that don't exist THERE. Like children who have trouble mediating the perfection of concepts with the imperfections of reality, so liberals/progressive/pick-one have trouble mediating the messiness of real life in a big country with many different viewpoints with the simple elegance of concepts. Unfortunately, some of those concepts--when taken out of a textbook and applied to real people--just don't work. Sorry, life's a messy and twisted business, much like a pretzel, but let's recognize that today's social upheaval is an opportunity for (or the result of?) those looking to destroy the obstruction that America represents to them.

It's woke capitalism because they don't gain revenue by actually selling to anybody, but rather by appealing to blackrock who gives then ESG investments fresh off the government money printer. The goal is over time ESG investments will gain ever increasing market share over the economy until it is impossible not to be ESG

everyone I dont like is antifer - you

@@reform-revolution "everything i disagree and don't like is wrong and bigoted because my feelings " - you

@@sonicthehedgehog1606 where did I say that? seems to be strawmanning is all you can do bro