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Subject: Re: Corporate Conspiracy Open-Source Theory
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On 2025-07-03, Borax Man <boraxman@geidiprime.nospam> wrote:
> On 2025-07-03, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 11:35:21 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
>>
>>> "Cui bono?" presumes that other people are motivated by the same things
>>> you are.  Not everythign is about money, not when ideology is involved.
>>
>> You really think amoral megacorporates are motivated by anything other 
>> than money? What agenda do you think they have? Are they just secretly 
>> wishing for the ordinary public to set up fan clubs in their honour? Run 
>> screaming after their executives, demanding their autographs? Maybe they 
>> just want to appear in fashion-magazine spreads alongside the beautiful 
>> people? What?
>>
> Yes, I do believe there are people within large organisations, who are
> motivated by things other than money.  They also want a sense of moral
> supremacy, of power, of discerning themselves as the elite.  You don't
> just do this by being rich, but by being influential.
>
> Why do you think companies push DEI?  It is a way to signal yourself as
> a thought leader.

Agreed. Disney is basically destroying themselves for DEI.

-- 
[Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an 
entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." 
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..."  — St. Augustine