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Now lemmy is flooding me with corporate propaganda? Good on the company for doing the right thing, but when I see this same headline in multiple communities on here, it reminds me of reddit.
Is it propaganda, though? How about we celebrate the few nice things going for us and just enjoy it for a second. We should be praising this regardless of our ideals because the world is very far from ideal.
Yeah, it probably is propaganda. Costco has been doing some cartoonishly shitty union busting recently for which they received a ton of backlash. Now, suddenly, we’re all supposed to be on their side because they said “DEI is good”? IDK, it might just be me, but that rings a bit hollow from a company that has a long (and very recent) history of doing shit like “changing the locks on union bulletin boards so the reps can’t put up any notices”.
what kind of cartoon world are we living in that i’m actually on the side of a corporation for once
A cartoon where a corporation is doing the absolute bare minimum to fight racism.
DEI is more than just racism. Lots of marginalized groups that based on race alone.
Costco is the only one
Arizona tea
They’ll find a way to fuck it up, I’m sure
Who are these shareholders?? Name and shame
The shareholder is a group called “National Center for Public Policy Research”, a far right organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco#Ownership
Oops. All Private Equity.
I’m starting to think these private equity firms are bad eggs! /s
It’s just bad apples. Landfills and landfills of bad apples. Not even compostable, that’s how bad they are.
Not compostable, but they could be ground up to make some fertilizer.
The top three are index funds basically which is not really private equity in the colloquial sense. A lot of people’s retirements and savings are held by vanguard, blackrock and state street.
These are not the same firms behind the proposal though. I know some of the funds listed like Blackrock and State Street have supported DEI at least in the past and have been targeted by the far right for that reason.
Is there any legal way a company can prevent the sale of their stock to a private equity?
Go private and don’t have stock traded on the secondary market?
You can’t restrict the sale of stock, typically, but there are some provisions that can be adopted to make things more resilient. Check out “Poison Pills” on Wikipedia
This for all shareholders, all the time. Their laws might care about the corporate veil but we don’t.
It’s DEI just Equal Opportunity with a fresh coat of paint so racists/misogynists don’t sound like boomers from the 90s when they complain about it?
Diversity, Equality, Inclusion.
Yes, DEI is just the new name for “stop discriminating against non-white males”
DEI is all about making money by using resources that being racist and dumb leaves on the table. The moment it becomes too expensive DEI won’t fix it.
Id rather have DEI than not have it, but DEI is for company profit, any other benefits are secondary.
I mean it sounds like DEI is about using the best talent available. Instead of narrowing your options. So DEI will become too expensive when the playing field is even.
Yes, that is my problem with it. DEI is about finding the best talent at the cheapest price point. This means if a man and a woman can do the same job. They will have them both do the same job but will not pay the women as much as the man.
This is better than keeping the woman as a secretary instead of an engineer, but it isn’t helping anyone, it’s just underpaying women and other minorities.
DEI has a branding problem. Should have called it IED.
C-IED here. What’s the emergency?
IED?
Improvised Explosive Device
DEI is all about making money by using resources that being racist and dumb leaves on the table
No it isnt… it’s just a quota. If you have sources showing the financial gains aquired through DEI implementation, please share
Well… do you have 3 more sources? Preferrably of the “angry, ranty, conservative dipshit” variety?
It really is amazing to see people not understand the concept that when you get people from a diversity of cultures and backgrounds in your country, it brings in new and good ideas that hadn’t been considered before due to the very lack of that diversity.
I work in a DEI company, there is no quota. They just want to higher cheap immigrant labor where they can get away with it and make their minority and women workers more productive by making them feel like they are cared for.
Why would a company voluntarily do something that would make it unpopular and lose money?
It’s not just a quota, and the post above yours is also wrong, but honestly I don’t have the energy to argue.
I’m sure the one above is actually right in some companies and wrong and others.
People shouldn’t make blanket statements about all companies.
Good companies pay by position and don’t underpay women in minorities.
That said the person who made the statement probably works in a company where that is the case.
The problem with DEI is that most discriminatory practices are not on purpose. People don’t underpay women because they are women per se. But because of invisible biases (e.g. holding women to higher expectations). And DEI tries to identify those issues and course correct. For example, one thing my company changed was how we write job offers to be more attractive to all, not just the typical male tech nerd.
It’s a capitalist system. Everything a company does is about its bottom line. Especially a publicly-traded company, which has no legal choice in the matter.
Awesome, now I have to block posts about Costco.
Welcome to Costco. I love you
We don’t have time for a Starbucks
Silence brand
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It’s just plain weird to me that this isn’t seen as the lowest bar in the world, but I’m definitely still taking the W.
It’s not that it’s such a great act in itself, it’s no where near enough.
But.
This is a significant win as a large, profitable and respected company is seen to be doing something so insignificant and get such good marketing results. This is the best kind of encouragement we can give to the souless retail machine 😉 And yes… “We will sing your praises if you just follow basic laws” is a pretty low bar, but here we are 😄Orphan-crushing machine refuses to accelerate crushing orphans is a now feel good story yet again.
This false dichotomy of all or nothing merely benefits the status quo.
A small improvement is better than no improvement and all progress has to start with a first step, somewhere, somehow.
But this isn’t a small improvement.
The DEI policy was already in place.
When that got enacted was the improvement.
This is just not a step backward.
A step forward would be something like… we’ve restructered into a democratically run co-op, in a tri cameral structure, your costco membership now grants you a vote in something approximating the US House of Representatives, employees now all get votes in some higher authority body approximating the Senate, and then the board of directors acts as a multi person executive branch.
In 2024, “not a step backwards” = good news.
How is Costco an orphan crushing machine?
Costco is slightly less egregious than its counterparts, but it is still very much a part of the system and went along with the insane profiteering price increases on essentials.
Costco: Has higher wages and better benefits than competitors, pushes back to keep their DEI policies to protect their most vulnerable employees
You: they’re evil
the thing is, the system in which we have to function forces corporations and people to do evil things, even against their intention or will. being good means sooner or later becoming bankrupt as now you’re working against the system and losing profits.
as another person mentioned - if their suppliers artificially raise prices, whether Costco wants it or not, they have to raise them as well. the market just forced them to do something that limited the amount of things an individual can purchase with their paycheque (as we know, salaries haven’t been exactly keeping up with inflation), and pushed more people into poverty as a result
no corporation is good, and very few are still fighting against becoming fully evil. and as you can see, the fights get more ridiculous every year, the bar of being “good” keeps getting lower
Your argument would hold more weight if Costco encouraged or even complied with unions. Just because Costco is making sure it won’t be the subject of discrimination lawsuits does not make them the good guy here. I don’t care how many free samples and $1.50 hotdogs you get.
Also that’s a pretty reductive take on what @N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com posted. They were merely highlighting that the larger system in which Costco operates is exploitive. Not that Costco themselves were inherently evil.
https://teamster.org/2024/12/costco-refuses-to-accept-98-of-teamsters-proposals/
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/teamsters-file-unfair-labor-practice-charges-against-costco/
https://jacobin.com/2024/01/costco-workers-unionization-teamsters
I was looking to see if I wasn’t hallucinating.
So, they’re standing by their DEI policies. Good. They’re still anti-union. Bad.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Costco is the least scummy corporation, but they’re still a corporation.
They’re a business at the end of the day. If their suppliers raise their prices, they have no choice but to do the same in order to not go broke overnight. It sucks for everyone, and nobody can avoid it.
What is DEI?
Questions against it is usually bigoted. It seemed to be the popular MAGA dogwhistle this election.
It’s not really a dogwhistle, DEI is diversity, equity and inclusion - they’re outright saying they don’t want diversity equity and inclusion.
DEI is a dog whistle in that for conservatives it means woke. They want companies to continue oppressing non white, non-cis, non-hetero people. Or at the very least, not actively elevate them.
But we can hear the whistle too. Being against diversity, equality, and inclusion is pretty blatant mask-off stuff.
It’s why they only use the initials.
Dog whistling normally means saying one thing while meaning another, this is not that.
Dogwhistling is less about lying and more about coded language.
My point here is there’s no coded language - DEI is expressly about promoting minority groups. They are explicitly attacking that.
Oh, for sure. I agree with you that this is not dogwhistling; I was just quibbling a little over your description of what dogwhistling is. MAGAs use a wide variety of dishonest rhetorical tactics: there’s lying for the purpose of outright deception, dogwhistling to signal intent while maintaining deniability, and then whatever this tactic is called – euphemizing, maybe? – to state their idea plainly but spin it as less bad than it actually is.
No. It means implying something from something more tame. For example, in this case, it’s an objection to any support for gay, trans etc. Rather than saying that outright, they’d say DEI is over the top. Which is attending to sound subtle and against a policy or practice when it’s against minorities. Its a dog whistle. Like anti-immigration is usually used in as a racist dog whistle.
It needs to have a coded element to it, some people hear what’s really being said, some do not, like an actual dog whistle. There is no coded element here, it’s explicitly attacking gay, trans, women, basically any minority group because that’s expressly what DEI is about.
American History X has a scene about it, although racists were programmed with different words 30 years ago.
I think it’s a sporting goods store
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Programs, most often hiring, promoting those values
But woke Marxism tho!!!
