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I apologise for a middlebrow dismissal but is there anything more to this than performative virtue signalling?

• tdonoghue 3y ago
  Yes! There's money to be made in the certification of the performative virtue signaling.
• culi 3y ago
  I actually kinda find them useful. The overall "B Corp certification" is just too easy to get imo, but they do have detailed breakdowns of scores in each of their 5 categories (Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, Customers). For example, you can look at this company page[0] and see that they don't have worker ownership or bonus points for certain environmental initiatives they take In short, while the certification might not be the most useful, I think the comparative scores can be. I wonder if anyone's scraped the data already for projects [0] https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/plenty-mercantile/ https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/ple...
  • unmole 3y ago
    This looks all too similar to ESG: Taking arbitrary and subjective values and turning them into supposedly objective numbers.
    • culi 3y ago
      The certification isn't just a vibe check. It's a very thorough rubric. The category names are the only thing that feels subjective But you still have a valid point. Any rubric large and complex enough is gonna lead to room for subjectivity in what is and isn't looked at as thoroughly. I'm not at all saying it's 100% signal and no noise. Just that there is signal in there and could be useful to someone or just fun to play with for a side project/data visualization