I was talking with a very old friend of mine. We got on the subject of the feminization of the modern corporations. The gist of the conversation was to acknowledge just how thoroughly almost all American companies have been converted into centers of female culture. I gathered that this friend felt that the problem had no solution. I’ve since been thinking about this. In a sense he’s right. These companies will never recover from this situation. The women in charge will never relinquish control over their environment.
But that isn’t the only way to avoid this situation. As has been noted, by many observers, companies that make feminism and other “diversity” efforts their primary purpose quickly become inefficient and eventually incompetent at the original function their corporation was supposed to be performing. So, if a pharmaceutical company starts hiring engineers and scientists based on the color of their skin or the sexual-fetish they indulge in or because they’re women, then pretty soon the supply of new drug products will dry up and the company will have to figure out another way to fill its pipeline with new medicines.
For a large company that formerly was highly profitable and still has large profits rolling in from its legacy business, a strategy to keep the place profitable is to buy small talented drug companies that have new products of their own. This can work quite well for a good long time. But the problem is that the parent company eventually steps in and imposes the woke culture in these new subsidiaries and before you know it, they’re just as inefficient and incompetent as the parent company. And as the parent company adds more and more woke entities to its network, the sales from this bloated, useless conglomerate become too small to produce decent profits.
Now this sounds like a very slow process of failure. And it is. But really the only way to improve the situation is to compete against it. Those small companies that get bought up provide an alternative to the woke mega-corporations. These small companies can base employment on merit and provide generous stock options to their best employees. Then even after being bought up they serve a purpose. Those that work there, cash in their stock options and when the bought-up company begins to turn woke, they search around for the next start-up where they can barter their skills for money. And so on. And over the course of time the companies that base employment on merit and knowledge instead of identity politics will inherit the Earth. Well, eventually.
So, this is a kind of sad depressing tale. I currently know of real companies like the first case. These were once places filled with brilliant scientists and engineers who put together processes and systems for discovering, testing, piloting, proving and manufacturing cutting edge biopharmaceuticals that revolutionized their industry. Now that they’ve chased away all the straight white men, they’re fumbling around trying to get their diversity dream team to learn how to do what those before them invented and optimized. And it sure isn’t looking pretty. I hear from the few of my friends that are still there, mostly as contractors to fix what’s falling apart. The managers put a brave face on it but they can’t admit that they don’t know what they’re doing wrong. And they never will admit it. So, things are going to get worse. Good.
