What You'll Learn:
A self-proclaimed traitor to his class, Harvard and Yale Law School graduate and bioinformatics investor is tired of corporations pretending to care about the latest social justice causes in order to get rich. Vivek Ramaswamy examines various aspects of corporate hypocrisy, details its corrosive effects on society and democracy, and illuminates a path from what he sees as a defining corporate-political scandal in American society.
Key Insights:
- In a remarkable display of ethical gymnastics, big businesses have learned to criticize themselves in order to make even more money than ever.
- Goldman Sachs exemplifies the duplicity common in the woke-industrial complex.
- ESGs are not worthless, but they are worth less.
- Wokeism and capitalism don’t like each other, but they have entered into a pragmatic union nonetheless.
- Principled progressives should be wary of the Faustian bargains they are making with corporations that don’t care about their causes.