{"id":35182,"date":"2025-11-13T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=35182"},"modified":"2025-11-12T22:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:45:31","slug":"get-woke-go-broke-eventually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/get-woke-go-broke-eventually\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Woke, Go Broke, Eventually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with a very old friend of mine.\u00a0 We got on the subject of the feminization of the modern corporations.\u00a0 The gist of the conversation was to acknowledge just how thoroughly almost all American companies have been converted into centers of female culture.\u00a0 I gathered that this friend felt that the problem had no solution.\u00a0 I\u2019ve since been thinking about this.\u00a0 In a sense he\u2019s right.\u00a0 These companies will never recover from this situation.\u00a0 The women in charge will never relinquish control over their environment.<\/p>\n<p>But that isn\u2019t the only way to avoid this situation.\u00a0 As has been noted, by many observers, companies that make feminism and other \u201cdiversity\u201d efforts their primary purpose quickly become inefficient and eventually incompetent at the original function their corporation was supposed to be performing.\u00a0 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\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 This can work quite well for a good long time.\u00a0 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\u2019re just as inefficient and incompetent as the parent company.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>Now this sounds like a very slow process of failure.\u00a0 And it is.\u00a0 But really the only way to improve the situation is to compete against it.\u00a0 Those small companies that get bought up provide an alternative to the woke mega-corporations.\u00a0 These small companies can base employment on merit and provide generous stock options to their best employees.\u00a0 Then even after being bought up they serve a purpose.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 And so on.\u00a0 And over the course of time the companies that base employment on merit and knowledge instead of identity politics will inherit the Earth.\u00a0 Well, eventually.<\/p>\n<p>So, this is a kind of sad depressing tale.\u00a0 I currently know of real companies like the first case.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Now that they\u2019ve chased away all the straight white men, they\u2019re fumbling around trying to get their diversity dream team to learn how to do what those before them invented and optimized.\u00a0 And it sure isn\u2019t looking pretty.\u00a0 I hear from the few of my friends that are still there, mostly as contractors to fix what\u2019s falling apart.\u00a0 The managers put a brave face on it but they can\u2019t admit that they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing wrong.\u00a0 And they never will admit it.\u00a0 So, things are going to get worse.\u00a0 Good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with a very old friend of mine.\u00a0 We got on the subject of the feminization of the modern corporations.\u00a0 The gist of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5077,4138],"class_list":["post-35182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-get-woke-go-broke","tag-woke-corporations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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