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As an international entrepreneur, I am delighted that large US companies spend their time and attention on inconsequential and toxic identity politics. More op
by sergefaguet 6y ago
As an international entrepreneur, I am delighted that large US companies spend their time and attention on inconsequential and toxic identity politics.
More opportunities for us to exploit their weakness, create real value and shape the future
And it goes without saying that the future we create and control will have no place for this drivel
- sangnoir 6y agoThe US has a long history with "toxic identity politics" - much of it very consequential. I dare say, there wasn't a time when America didn't care for "identity politics" - if there was, please let me know when.
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- Sparkle-san 6y agoYou make it sounds like non-American countries are going to take over America and then then rule over it with an iron fist. That being said I don't know how you'd create "real value" on top of what Coca-Cola does. They put sugar into water and sell it at absurd mark-ups.
- ceilingcorner 6y agoI’m amazed that there is so much to do at Coca-Cola. You’d think by now the entire company would be a technician, a taste tester, and a marketer + an army of machines.
- inglor_cz 6y agoYou also need to buy scientists so that they muddy the waters re "excessive sugar consumption and health". Coca-Cola gives a lot of grants.
- Hydraulix989 6y agoOr an army of marketers
- azinman2 6y agoAnd if you think that then you’re demonstrating the Dunning-Kruger effect.
- ceilingcorner 6y agoIt really is like watching an empire die. Hyperfocused on obscure artificially-inflated issues while basic utilities cease functioning.
- rayiner 6y agoRacial inequality is not an "artificially inflated issue." Studies show that, despite reduction in de jure racism over the past 70 years, Black-white income gaps are large (with Black incomes being 19 percentile points below white incomes in the income distribution), and also persistent. Meanwhile, the incomes of other groups (Latinos, Asians) have or are in the process of converging with those of whites. So there is a real, devilishly difficult problem here. But it's not going to be solved by telling people to "be less white." That's an insane non-solution to a real problem.
- ceilingcorner 6y agoThe fact that inequality exists in no way indicates that there is a society-wide conspiracy of white supremacy. That other minorities have rising incomes should make it obvious that the issue is very complex.
- walkedaway 6y agoIndeed, a simple reading of almost anything by Thomas Sowell, especially Discrimination and Disparities, would go a long way to educate everyone that discrimination is not a meaningful factor in why we have disparities between groups.
- inglor_cz 6y agoThere are fairly massive income gaps within white and black groups as well. Nigerian Americans have on average 10 % higher incomes than whites. EDIT: It is 5 per cent, not 10 per cent. I was mistaken. They have 10 % more than an average American household. Czech Americans have on average 20 % higher incomes than generic whites. Given that I am a Czech, are we silently running Czech supremacy in the U.S.?
- guidovranken 6y agoIt doesn't work like that. You will be forced into compliance. Try creating a competing social network for example.
- sergefaguet 6y agoHah. We’ll see. To reliably force someone into compliance you have to have power. Power acquisition requires skill. And these people are fucking clowns
- ad404b8a372f2b9 6y agoIn the culture war the U.S will come out on top like they always have. They are the kings of soft power and they fund academics to spread their ideology all over Europe. You can see it taking root in our universities. Unless our politicians wake up in a massive way we'll follow wherever America goes and it's not a trip I'm looking forward to.
- WalterSear 6y agoThey've been on top since the invention of mass media. The internet is eroding that.
- omginternets 6y ago>"Like they always have" You have a short view of history, my friend.
- sergefaguet 6y agoPast tense right here. Right now the US is a bankrupt, imploding, dying empire full of angry people and crumbling infrastructure. And the advance of remote work, internet media and crypto will mean that the US will have a hard time keeping itself together for a single more decade.
- smaryjerry 6y agoI don’t believe the US economy is struggling any more than the European economy but as it does become a less desirable or respectable place it’s influence on the world will decline. It’s anecdotal, but for instance my Mexican colleagues believe Mexico could earn them a better living and more freedoms them now than living in America.