• Transient Punk@sh.itjust.works
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    25 days ago

    Saved you a click:

    • Meta
    • McDonald’s
    • Walmart
    • Molson Coors
    • Ford Motor Co
    • John Deere
    • Lowe’s
    • Harley Davidson
    • Brown-Forman
    • Tractor Supply Co
    • Toyota
  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    It’s not so much that they “caved” to the far right as that they finally can get away with this stuff and focus on profits.

    Corporations only care about profits. Their sole legal obligation is to the shareholders. Corporations have no moral values. DEI is an expense line on the balance book for them: they do stuff like DEI when they’re forced to by law, as the cost of doing business lawfully, or when they perceive it to be in their interest to appeal to potential buyers who care about DEI.

    When the president is openly extreme right and - more importantly - when half the population voted him in, it’s evident to all corporations that DEI is not a subject the majority of the population is interested in. Therefore they drop the expense. It’s that simple.

    What you’re witnessing is shameless corporations devoid of any sense of morals doing what they always do: minimizing their expenses. Don’t blame them: blame the morons who wanted it to happen. That’s your neighbors two doors down the street with that MAGA lawn sign and your annoying creepy uncle who just can’t shut the hell up about communist libtards at family dinners.

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    Gosh, it’s like companies in a capitalist economy have absolutely no moral center whatsoever and will do whatever they can get away with to maximize profits!

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    I feel like Meta (Facebook) didn’t cave so much as took the mask off.

    Someone should really do something about Meta

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      more like all of them changed masks and next time a democrat government comes back they will wear the other mask

      • Ricky Rigatoni 🇺🇸@lemm.ee
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        Yeah. There are plenty of companies keeping their DEI hiring without it being mandated. And it’s not like the government can penalize them for using those hiring practices. (Yet)

    • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works
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      They want more extreme rhetoric because it drives engagement. They went to a paid creator model and I see accounts that post random shit to get people going in the comment section.

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    Surprised that they missed Caterpillar in this list, given it’s significantly larger than John Deere. And yeah, I agree that it wasn’t “caving,” more a convenient excuse to throw their employees under the bus in the quest for short-term profit above all else.

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    I’m glad - it is frusterating when you fing a great candidate but can’t hire because you didn’t get enough qualified minority applicants now you had to waste someone’s time on an interview who isn’t even qualified. Fortunately we almost always had at least one anyway and they got hired often as the most qualified. But it didn’t change anything evcept to waste time once in a while.