This is especially true of publicly traded companies.
A publicly traded company's customers are it's investors, and it's product is shareholder value. Everything else they do is just the manufacturing process.
You'd think so, but weirdly enough, conservative "boycotting" more often than not seems to include buying and engaging with the things they claim they're not using.
The rage is within them, and it's coming out as smug finger pointing. They don't know what The Conversation is, and they think they can just cargo cult criticize it.
Because it's scheduled. He probably just has a "sell all of my stock bonuses as I receive them" order to his broker. If he doesn't actually get involved in the day-to-day decision making of his stock portfolio, then there's no special knowledge involved in the sale.
While a lot of people work for big companies that may have commercial real estate holdings or are invested in REITs or something, most companies pulling workers back are not. And, indeed, they're run by people that are choosing to pay for the privilege of lording their station over the hired help -- though not to the employees, and many of them not purposefully.
They're just taking productivity hits while swearing up and down that we're all lazy thieves who don't do a thing all day while not in the panopticon.
That's just the system. This is what happens when people confuse commerce with capitalism: They think that capitalism is being rewarded for doing commerce better. Instead, capitalism is about leveraging ownership of property and underpaying workers in order to get money for free.
And the thing about money is that it's really just a proxy for power. When you only have enough of it to eek out a comfortable life (or less), you don't really notice, because all of your power goes in to achieving or maintaining that acceptably good life (or hanging on for dear life trying to survive), but once your needs are comfortably and handidly met, money is entirely about being able to make other people do whatever you want. And the more money you have, the more things you can get them to do, or the more of them that you can get to do what you want.
And if you've managed to be one of the lucky ones who just get free money for owning shit, then you have the power at your fingertips to try to grow your power over others exponentially, while still doing no honest work in your days. And if you're a shitty person who gets off on all of this, that's exactly what you'll do.
The wealthy are insufferably greedy leeching assholes because one does not become wealthy without being greedy, leeching off of others, and being an insufferable asshole.
it would be really amazing for a company that is asking everyone to follow the new rules to ignore the well established laws at the same time
Eh. The whole foundational element of capital is "I own it, therefore I get to make the rules". The laws are for us "human capital", who exist to do what the rich want. This is what they think of us, and they behave in perfect coherence with this line of thinking.
"I joined a social media space founded on anti-capitalism and opposing the enshitification of life, and I'm annoyed by all of the anti-capitalism and discussions about the enshitification of life" sure is a hell of a take.
Yeah, that was a bit of an insidious statement. Month over month or year over year inflation may be manageable now, but that does nothing to reverse the price spikes over the last two years. And the vast majority of us did not see pay raises to match them.
You sheep! Can't you see that the very public and obvious group of wealthy people that rule the world are just a front!!??!? A front for the real secret group of wealthy people that rule the world, like... Bill Gates, and... Jeffery Bezos, and...
And that turned out for the best, too.
I started playing Pathfinder.