Woke, Inc.: A Sunday Times Business Book of the Year

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Members of Roivant’s advisory board were following Ramaswamy’s new career as a cultural critic, and some were distressed. As of 2021, he owned a house in Butler County, Ohio, [7] but in 2023, the only real estate he reported owning was a house in Columbus, Ohio, in Franklin County.

Funds, which offers two products and emphasizes conservative and faith-based values, appeared the same year. Ramaswamy is, of course, not alone in accusing big corporations of acting enlightened only as a marketing ploy. Ramaswamy argues that if we don’t limit the unique privileges granted to tech companies, those companies will essentially function as a shadow government ruling over the free speech of American citizens. Moore told me that, after he took office in January, 2021, he heard that coal, gas, and oil companies with operations in his state were struggling because some banks had made it more difficult for them to borrow money.The lobbying arm of the Heritage Foundation, which has received funding from the billionaire Koch brothers and other allies of the fossil-fuel industry, is an enthusiastic supporter of such anti-E. The Ramaswamy family belongs to India's elite Brahmin caste, a fact he mentions several times in his book. He contends that their false alliance with social causes allows them to influence legislation, manipulate consumers, and silence dissent.

If corporations are supposed to be focused on maximizing profit for shareholders rather than social goals anyway, why should we be upset that big corporations are less woke than they pretend to be?And Ramaswamy’s self-satisfaction at turning a pro-LGBT court decision into a pro-James Damore one comes across in the text. But the connections he sees also seem plausible because the power of American companies over democratic and legal institutions is well documented. They may work well for a partisan pundit in a TV shouting match or in a siloed social media debate, but they do nothing to advance a real-world solution. Roivant had acquired another promising drug, to treat prostate cancer, that, when used in combination with a second drug, seemed to ease symptoms of uterine fibroids and endometriosis. S. Bank, warning that they might lose state contracts should they be found to be boycotting fossil fuels.