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Author:

Ramaswamy, Vivek, author.

Title:

Woke, Inc. : inside corporate America's social justice scam / Vivek Ramaswamy.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Center Street,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

vii, 358 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Corporations--Moral and ethical aspects.
Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects.
Business and politics.
Corporations--Political aspects.
Consumption (Economics)--Moral and ethical aspects.
Social justice.
Corporate culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-353).

Summary:

"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." -- inside front jacket flap.

ISBN:

1546090789
9781546090786

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1237631944

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