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- Can you say more about what challenges on what positions changed your opinions? Have tour political opinions changed on both social and economic issues? I’d be very interested to hear more. Specifically, I am curious what the most influential points raised to you were.
I say the same thing all the time as you did above, regarding how detrimental curated media is to society. I share your concerns that generated content will make matters unfathomably worse. How these techniques divide our population and inhibit the open discourse necessary to a well-functioning democracy are destroying our sociopolitical system.
The way you talk about diversity (i.e. diversity of thought vs diversity of looks) is similar to what Vivek Ramaswamy has to say in his book, Woke, Inc. You may enjoy the read.
- Another good read on ESG's shortcomings is Woke Inc. [1]
1: https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Inc-Corporate-Americas-Justice/d...
- There is no contradiction: https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Inc-Corporate-Americas-Justice/d...
It’s not “left wing” but rather an effective co-opting of the left wing. It steers the conversation to being about the skin color of the board members and executives and away from the concentrated ownership of corporate shares.
- I also am concerned that the principle of CEOs not speaking out on issues is not being applied consistently.
CEOs are allowed to publicly state their opinion if it is in favor of left leaning positions but not conservative leaning positions.
See also the book Woke Inc.
- Well unlike Michael, I left after six months. I thought the job was a lot of BSing (and I decided to work at Bain after my SW eng interships which I felt did not move fast enough and had a lot of wasted time; I can be very type A and demanding for constant stimulation). There was a lot of time spent basically making things up to satisfy customers. There was also huge pressure to spend ungodly sums of money as an associate, because everyone's posing to one up the others (I'm talking about.. let's go do a birthday in Cabo every other weekend). So I had decided I didn't like it, but wanted to last at least a year.
Anyway, my colleague / mentor who's supposed to be helping me, instead tells me that I need to do better at making things up for customers essentially. It's quite the intense conversation. I can feel I'm not his favorite associate. Anyway, he ends his criticism by telling me not to jump out a window (we're on the 33rd floor).
Well, a week later, an associate at Goldman Sachs (which had an office in the same building) does indeed jump out a window.
A week later, I resigned.
All in all, it was very enlightening. I got to see how the rich really live. And most importantly, I realized they're no different than anyone else, just willing to sacrifice more. As my actual boss told me... family was for when I turned 30 (I was engaged already at the time I joined Bain). I recently began listening to 'Woke Inc' by Ramaswamy, and he has similar experiences at Goldman Sachs. Including the fake philanthropy stuff.
