I have developed a new economic law, called Shane’s Law.
Shane’s Law states that as the size of a company increases, the likelihood of woke DEI infrastructure and culture increases, until it reaches absolute certainty.
For example: you can have a small, 3-man construction company or consulting company (sorry ladies, we only hire men), and it doesn’t have to be woke or have any DEI components to its business practices or its culture.
And you can scale this up until a certain point, but only with small businesses. Once you reach a certain level of mid-sized business, it becomes extremely difficult to avoid corporate wokeness and DEI. In fact, it may be near impossible based on certain social, regulatory, and economic factors.
There are mid-sized businesses that do not have this, but they may largely or mostly be explicitly political, conservative organizations. I’m not sure if it’s possible for a mid-sized widget company to not be woke and incorporate DEI in today’s climate, they’re certainly trying to make it so it’s not.
For large businesses, it seems like it actually IS impossible to not be culturally woke and institute DEI practices, based on the aforementioned social, regulatory, and economic factors, all of which increase dramatically for large companies.
If charted, this economic law of woke DEI probability does not graph linearly, but in a stepwise fashion, exploding upward drastically at certain key points, like being big enough to fall under certain employment law regulations, reaching the size of needing an HR department, and going public.
For fun: can you think of any large companies that are not culturally woke and do not have a DEI infrastructure? Any mid-sized ones?
This post brought to you by me arguing with a friend over whether it’s possible to live your life and make money working in an industry or in a company that doesn’t have DEI bullshit, and whether you can make a living without bending the knee. Basically whether you can avoid living under the Woke Religion or not. This was my thought.
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I would interject that it comes from the top down. If you have strong owners/Sr Management that refuse to apologize and bend the knee to the Leftist mob, and if they screen for “Wokeness” during the hiring process and weed it out throughout the entire corporate environment, if they have a strong HR Dept that doesn’t entertain BS complaints (i.e., “I’m sorry Karen, someone asking you out doesn’t constitute sexual harassment. Grow up and deal with it yourself and either go out with Bill or tell him directly to his face that you aren’t interested! Now please get back to work and stop wasting my time with normal, daily life occurrences!”), then I believe that one could actually lessen the destructive effects of DEI & Wokeness, and possibly even start the pendulum swinging back towards the center!
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Totally agree Shane. Good Points.
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