Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

ISBN: 1546090789

Author: Ramaswamy, Vivek

Condition: New

In this New York Times bestseller, a young and successful entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism.Theres 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 Americas business and political leaders robs us of our money, our voice, and our identity.Vivek Ramaswamy is a traitor to his class. Hes 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, Americas 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. Americas elites may want to sort us into demographic boxes, but we dont 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 today-a journey that begins with cynicism and ends with hope.