The Mind of the Professional-Managerial Class in SF: Elite Betrayal

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The Silicon Valley series mocked this brilliantly. Everybody wanted to "make the world a better place" by "revolutionizing location-based news aggregators" (one of the less absurd ones) etc.

Title of the article is “Inside the Mind of the Professional-Managerial Class, Part Five: Elite Betrayal”.

There’s no “In SF”.

True, but the first sentence is :

“In this series (see Parts I, II, III, and IV), our resident Bay-Area psychotherapist takes us to the depths of the professional-managerial class psyche.”

Yep, I read that too.

This kind of explains why high level "corporate woke" behavior has become so frequent, shrill and so ineffectual at addressing the problems it purports to care about - there's a lot of steam in the PMCs and the UMC are giving a way for the PMC to let off some of this steam in a nonthreatening way.

It's weird that you describe "woke" as non-threatening given how divisive it is in practice. Corporations used to engage in actual CSR efforts, using their unique skillsets to further the public interest and make the world a genuinely better place in a very cost-effective way. Now that might well have been replaced by pointless, thoroughly ineffective, plausibly counterproductive rhetoric about 'DEI'. That's got to be a pretty big disappointment.

I meant non threatening to capital. Things like gay rights, BLM definitely upset some people but the PMC's boss's position isnt threatened by it.

CSR is effectively a just a different kind of reputation laundering. In general the more evil the corporation, the more of emphasis they need to put on CSR.

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