Gosh, it’s like companies in a capitalist economy have absolutely no moral center whatsoever and will do whatever they can get away with to maximize profits!
Saved you a click:
- Meta
- McDonald’s
- Walmart
- Molson Coors
- Ford Motor Co
- John Deere
- Lowe’s
- Harley Davidson
- Brown-Forman
- Tractor Supply Co
- Toyota
Knowing that Home Depot also sucks ass, my hardware store options are getting pretty limited.
I’ll let ya in on a little secret…
If it’s big, it has like a 99.999% chance of sucking just as bad as any of the bad ones. You just don’t see or hear about it.
Look at industrial places. I used to go to a bolt warehouse that just sold bolts. Another place sold bearings. There’s lumber yards that sell hardware too. Check newegg for tools and stuff too.
Ace Hardware. Maybe Menards but they are anti-union.
John Menard is a massive turd by CEO standards.
I feel like Meta (Facebook) didn’t cave so much as took the mask off.
Someone should really do something about Meta
more like all of them changed masks and next time a democrat government comes back they will wear the other mask
Yeah. There are plenty of companies keeping their DEI hiring without it being mandated. And it’s not like the government can penalize them for using those hiring practices. (Yet)
They want more extreme rhetoric because it drives engagement. They went to a paid creator model and I see accounts that post random shit to get people going in the comment section.
Surprised that they missed Caterpillar in this list, given it’s significantly larger than John Deere. And yeah, I agree that it wasn’t “caving,” more a convenient excuse to throw their employees under the bus in the quest for short-term profit above all else.
Oh what do you know, it’s the world’s worst companies that won’t ever get any money from me
Ethical consumption is impossible under capitalism. We can and should try our best to minimize the amount these shitty companies profit, but completely divesting from them all is impossible.
Molson Coors. From hero to zero.
The Coors family started the Heritage Foundation and gave a significant amount of money to dozens of right wing organizations, so I would not consider them “heroes” in any sense. You’re losing the plot if you ignore that, for having a perfect score for inclusivity.
https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/the-1970s-coors-beer-boycott/
Coors Family ≠ Molson Coors
The Coors family are indeed pieces of shit, but they own ~10% of the company. The company is mostly owned by institutional investors. Don’t get facts mixed. Coors family is shit? Fact. Molson Coors was a champion of inclusivity? Also fact. These are not mutually exclusive.
Personally I can’t abstract the history of it being a fascist beer, just because it merged with a less fascist beer and various grand children sold their shares so they only own a tenth of the company their grandpa was using to fund the modern conservative movement that seeks to dismantle the very inclusivity it was offering to it’s own employees.
I just can’t square the circle there, maybe they were mitagating some of the damage they were causing by being inclusive, but calling them heroes is a bit rich for me.
The company is mostly owned by institutional investors.
This is an (unintentional) euphemism for “the company is mostly owned by regular middle-class folks via the mutual funds in their retirement accounts, but the Vanguard/Blackrock/Fidelity/etc. fund managers have stolen their shareholder voting rights.”
The very annoying thing about these big conglomerates is that they own dozens and dozens of brands… and even if you go to that brand’s site, it won’t show an address or contact info of the parent company.
TIL that Granville Island and Hop Valley Brewing is owned by Molson Coors. So if you’re in Vancouver looking for craft beer come and get Parallel 49, Steamworks or any of the multitude of other options there are here.
What am I missing here, why were they heroes?
If you read the article you’ll see it, but it was fairly common knowledge already. Molson Coors used to have a perfect score for inclusivity and was often voted one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+ amongst other accolades and accomplishments.
Gotcha, thanks
