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Here is a thought experiment: what if ALL companies took the same controversial side of a value? Say every company sided with abortion bans or every company sid

Here is a thought experiment: what if ALL companies took the same controversial side of a value? Say every company sided with abortion bans or every company sided with free abortions (doesn’t matter which side). Do these people quit then? I don’t think so. Anecdotally, some of the biggest SJWs I know cash their employment checks from companies that have a terrible reputation when it comes to values these people keep talking about so loudly, mostly because the checks are fat as f.

bombcar 4y ago
It's a survey, people talk much harder than they walk. Every time there's a big flareup of some social media-enhanced frenzy, people talk big and don't actually do anything (if everyone who ever threatened to move to Canada actual DID so, they'd have 250% of the US population by now). People can't even successfully boycott companies that are entirely interchangeable, they're going to have an even harder time boycotting their paycheck. Where you may see some effects in the margin are where people will apply to work, as applying takes some effort, but it takes no effort to not apply at Facebook, for example.