To the point of Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc virtue signaling during this time - yes, they are doing it. And yes, of course they calculated this first and didn

To the point of Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc virtue signaling during this time - yes, they are doing it. And yes, of course they calculated this first and didn’t just do it on a heartstring. It’s like regular people giving to charity to get themselves a tax deduction. Sure, it’s a calculated decision to get some personal benefit from it, but in the end, a charity still got some money which is good for them. It’s like a cost-benefit analysis of sitting in church evaluating the social backlash of not doing something vs. the cost of putting some change in the collection tray passed around. The reason other things get passed over (other wars, conflicts, politics, etc) is because these companies know they can skip out on those collection trays and not face any material scrutiny.