Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam by Vivek Ramaswamy

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Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam by Vivek Ramaswamy

Author: Vivek Ramaswamy

A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism.
There’s a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every advertisement we see and every product we buy, from our morning coffee to a new pair of shoes. “Stakeholder capitalism” makes rosy promises of a better, more diverse, environmentally-friendly world, but in reality this ideology championed by America’s business and political leaders robs us of our money, our voice, and our identity.

Vivek Ramaswamy is a traitor to his class. He’s founded multibillion-dollar enterprises, led a biotech company as CEO, he became a hedge fund partner in his 20s, trained as a scientist at Harvard and a lawyer at Yale, and grew up the child of immigrants in a small town in Ohio. Now he takes us behind the scenes into corporate boardrooms and five-star conferences, into Ivy League classrooms and secretive nonprofits, to reveal the defining scam of our century.

The modern woke-industrial complex divides us as a people. By mixing morality with consumerism, America’s elites prey on our innermost insecurities about who we really are. They sell us cheap social causes and skin-deep identities to satisfy our hunger for a cause and our search for meaning, at a moment when we as Americans lack both.

This book not only rips back the curtain on the new corporatist agenda, it offers a better way forward. America’s elites may want to sort us into demographic boxes, but we don’t have to stay there. Woke, Inc. begins as a critique of stakeholder capitalism and ends with an exploration of what it means to be an American in 2021—a journey that begins with cynicism and ends with hope.

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I have been waiting for this book since I watched the author talking about his theory of the origins of woke religion, great intellectual pleasure Ahmed Abdelfattah                                                                                  rated it: 5.0 from 5.0

A fantastic insight into how the unholy nexus of big tech, big business, and the new Left birthed the Woke virus to undermine liberal, free societies by strangling them with that very liberty. Big business wins because they can continue to horde capital and continue their greed with shallow actions like screaming empty platitudes of diversity/inclusion and making corporate boards more diverse irrespective of merit/ability. The Left wins because it gives them institutional power. Big Tech wins because they can continue their monopolistic practices in exchange for censoring the dissent against the new Left. The CCP wins by keeping this pot boiling and weakening the USA from within. Who loses? The average American…VERY IMPORTANT BOOK! C.V. Rajan                                                                                              rated it: 5.0 from 5.0