“BigCorp might be a ruthless monopolist, but oh gee look how many _N_ they hired, for several different values of _N_. Sure, we might be throwing whole sectors

“BigCorp might be a ruthless monopolist, but oh gee look how many _N_ they hired, for several different values of _N_. Sure, we might be throwing whole sectors of the economy into monopolized penury, but OMG we have RAINBOWS and we are NOT AFRAID TO FLY THEM.” Diversity hiring and carbon credits, for example, are both very similar in this case. “Sure, we’ve polluted the air you breathe and released chemicals of unknown toxicity into your water (we suspect they will give you cancer but hope to have moved our headquarters into a country that will give us immunity from the lawsuit in 20-30 years). But we’re carbon neutral because we sent some poor African country a couple thousand bucks!”