So, I've explained this in many threads, I figure one more can't hurt.
Pretty much everything on this planet is driven by money. Wokeness is no exception. 'Wokeness' in its current form evolved out of the post-modernist movements in France in the 1950s, basically pushed into academia and were the formation for every modern civil rights movement. The thing is, however, this push was driven by real problems. The thing is, these problems inevitably create careers. Industries. Jobs. Journals. Professorships. Universities. Departments in Academia, Private Industry and Government. There's a whole economy on this. When you had the Civil Rights bill passed, you still had work to do. But over time, this has consistently and constantly faded.
Problems begin to fade and they need to be replaced. So you have this constant glut of problem after problem after problem. Most notably, we see this with modern day 'Fourth wave' feminism. There's this massive struggle looking for problems it eventually created this oborous that is entirely designed to eat itself and look for nails everywhere. If you notice, with the rare exception of BLM, the LGBTQ and feminist and even Marxist movements have been completely scattershot and all over the place. They don't have cohesive goals, because they need constant problems and the problems they generate aren't actually big ones that anyone cares about, so they're either quickly forgotten or quashed. Police brutality is one of the notable exceptions as its the only thing that's been focused clearly and plainly and most people can identify, and even that singular goal has collapsed as crime has massively increased and people are mocking the cops for checking vaccine passports but not doing shit about murder and theft.
I mean, they've tried infiltrating the sciences but its kind of hard, because there's really not much wiggle room there. And pretty much everyone in the 'S' part of STEM fucking hates soft scientists and thinks they're living jokes, especially women and minorities in the field (because they're generally foreign and foreigners think the humanities in our country is a huge fucking joke). That and well, no Americans want to go into science anymore anyway. Except for me, and my reward is getting COVID twice. Anyway...
A large part of this too is a company's ESG score. Its another rating metric that people use to see which firms are good to invest in based on their 'environmental', 'social justice' and 'governmental' score, which is their corporate culture, how woke and green they are. Why this number equates to good investing is a mystery to me, but there are billions if not trillions of dollars attempting to push wokeness. Its why you get hilarious and ridiculous shit like Rayetheon being the '#1 LGBTQ Company' even though it designs fucking death machines and why you have ADIDAS pumping out BLM commercials with a small black girl making a fist, yet it has hundreds of sweat shops across the globe where children her age and younger are being used to pump out merchandise. I mean, there's a lot of doom and gloom about these ESG factors, but they're HILARIOUSLY inaccurate. For example, the correlation between Moody's and S&P (the two major rating agencies) is 0.99. Meaning for any one company they rate, the ratings are both near identical, which means they're reliable. The correlation out of the ESG rating firms is....a paltry 0.3. Which means they're all over the fucking place. Firstly, they're extremely subjective to grading.
ESG ratings agencies are also hilariously wishy-washy as to how they grade shit. E, S and G have no measurement standards, are distinct issues and have no commonly accepted definition. So the whole ESG craze is basically so degenerate gamblers feel good about themselves. For now. We'll see how much money it takes for them to lose at the table for their greed to outweigh their conscious. I'm betting it won't take much. Also remember, ESG is more about looking good than doing good, and for people doing ESG ratings to sell their product and asset managers to sell ESG portfolios. The whole ESG thing is a scam, and there's little to no evidence that it results in 1) Anyone doing anything good at all and 2) That you're going to get more money. And reminder, there are HUNDREDS of ESG raters. So you could easily shop around for the best one because, badump, there's no definition, classification, standardization and creating ESG relies on public disclosures, company disclosures, news articles, social media, data published by NGOs, governments, company surveys, third party data sets....so, its basically just fucking all smoke and mirrors.
ESG is another pretty product that rich people use to rip rich people off and make us all fucking miserable until they're not able to fool other rich people any more and they finally just give the fuck up.
