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The Mind of the Professional-Managerial Class in SF: Elite Betrayal
- WalterGR 5y agoTitle of the article is “Inside the Mind of the Professional-Managerial Class, Part Five: Elite Betrayal”. There’s no “In SF”.
- cplusplusfellow 5y agoTrue, but the first sentence is : “In this series (see Parts I, II, III, and IV), our resident Bay-Area psychotherapist takes us to the depths of the professional-managerial class psyche.”
- WalterGR 5y agoYep, I read that too.
- ahartmetz 5y agoThe Silicon Valley series mocked this brilliantly. Everybody wanted to "make the world a better place" by "revolutionizing location-based news aggregators" (one of the less absurd ones) etc.
- pydry 5y agoThis kind of explains why high level "corporate woke" behavior has become so frequent, shrill and so ineffectual at addressing the problems it purports to care about - there's a lot of steam in the PMCs and the UMC are giving a way for the PMC to let off some of this steam in a nonthreatening way.
- zozbot234 5y agoIt's weird that you describe "woke" as non-threatening given how divisive it is in practice. Corporations used to engage in actual CSR efforts, using their unique skillsets to further the public interest and make the world a genuinely better place in a very cost-effective way. Now that might well have been replaced by pointless, thoroughly ineffective, plausibly counterproductive rhetoric about 'DEI'. That's got to be a pretty big disappointment.
- pydry 5y agoI meant non threatening to capital. Things like gay rights, BLM definitely upset some people but the PMC's boss's position isnt threatened by it. CSR is effectively a just a different kind of reputation laundering. In general the more evil the corporation, the more of emphasis they need to put on CSR.