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Woke, Inc.

Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam

Vivek Ramaswamy
Center Street, 2021

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Controversial
  • Eye Opening
  • Bold

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In his scathing and controversial critique of “woke capitalism,” entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy argues passionately that big business cynically deploys progressive-sounding rhetoric and symbols to accumulate more power and sell more products. Many corporations, he believes, promote socially conscious messages as a smoke screen to distract from their malfeasance and enhance their bottom line.While some elements of his argument may be more convincing than others, Ramaswamy’s instant New York Times best-selling polemic makes a strong case for the importance of pluralism in democratic societies.

Take-Aways

  • Corporations’ embrace of “wokeness” is disingenuous and dangerous to democracy.
  • US companies’ limited liability protections allow them to leverage wokeness to make themselves more rich and powerful.
  • The managerial class exploits stakeholder capitalism to accumulate more power.

About the Author

Vivek Ramaswamy is the founder and executive chairman of Roivant Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the application of technology to drug development. He has authored numerous articles and op-eds, and serves on the board of directors of the Philanthropy Roundtable and the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.

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