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

• Author: Ramaswamy, Vivek
• Publishing house: Center Street
• Release Date: 2021-08-17
• Number of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 16.3 x 3.6 x 23.6
• Language: English: Published; English: Original Language; English
• ISBN: 9781546090786

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. There's 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 America's business and political leaders robs us of our money, our voice, and our identity. Vivek Ramaswamy is a traitor to his class. He 's 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, America's 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. America's elites may want to sort us into demographic boxes, but we don 't 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 .