Companies That Get ‘Woke’ Aren’t Going Broke — They’re More Profitable Than Ever

originally posted by: SRPrime
Sometimes I wonder if y'all even listen to what you say? If you're laying off people; you're shrinking the labor force.

Sometimes I wonder if any of you understand basic economics. If you shrink your labor force do your monthly costs go up or down? Which one of those leads to more revenue?

Companies have long practiced labor reductions when growth was strong, it's called 'maximizing earnings'.

a reply to: Maxmars


wow a left leaning publication that promotes wokeness says woke companies are prospering, wonder why that is? could it be pandering to the woke and the sway backs.

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a reply to: PorkChop96

Macrobreweries have been losing market share to micro- and craft breweries for years. That doesn't change the fact that Bud Light ships twice as many barrels as their next leading competitor.

Most industries are seeing record profits due to inflation.

Which is hilarious when you see the communists whining about the profits without releasing they go up with everything else during times of high inflation.

Average wages are also at a record high, by the way. Those damn greedy workers, right?

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Economics 101.

a reply to: Maxmars

Load of horsesh*t. Look at this:

The parent company, Keurig Green Mountain, acquired Dr Pepper Snapple Group in a $18.7-billion deal in 2018, forming Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. — the third-largest beverage company in North America. This behemoth’s annual gross profits have swelled ever since, reaching $7.3 billion in 2022...

Gee. They acquired Dr Pepper Snapple and since then have seen profits increase.

What does that have to do with the catering to the wanky 'woke' brigade?

originally posted by: noonebutme
a reply to: Maxmars

Load of horsesh*t. Look at this:

The parent company, Keurig Green Mountain, acquired Dr Pepper Snapple Group in a $18.7-billion deal in 2018, forming Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. — the third-largest beverage company in North America. This behemoth’s annual gross profits have swelled ever since, reaching $7.3 billion in 2022...

Gee. They acquired Dr Pepper Snapple and since then have seen profits increase.

What does that have to do with the catering to the wanky 'woke' brigade?

That it doesn't matter how they market a particular product; those off put will likely just switch to another product from the same company.

I was wrong.

a reply to: visitedbythem

No they didn't. Did you even read that thread?

If I'm correct here.

Boycott My Pillow Guy, make him feel pain, works.

Boycott Bud Light is just not going to work even if you wanted it to.

The problem with a Polarity Reality revealed again. Boycotting Bud Light is an issue, so one must balance that quickly with the "opposite." Since there really is no opposite, as the process is simply personal choice, we have this utter gibberish put forth as the antidote to folks getting sick of being preached to.

Backlash to the backlash to the backlash to the backlash seems to be the future.

a reply to: Xcalibur254

Give it some time. I dont drink that garbage. Europeans, especially Germans laugh their ass of at that swill.

Guys at the steel mill I used to work with have given up drinking Bud and Bud light, since this new spectacle on nonsense and immorality.

I had a boss in my youth who was gay. One day he was telling me how men knew how to pleasure other men better then women. I replied" men dont have a vagina"

He said " Oh but they do!"

I puked a little.

a reply to: paraphi

For Nike, you would have get the colleges to drop them.

originally posted by: v1rtu0s0
Basically they don't need customers to have access to capital. As long as they follow ESG principles the WEF will reward them. This plays into the global communist agenda which will eventually enslave us all, but did so under the guise of being for the common good. Just like climate change and just like obeying covid scamdemic policies.

I have to partially disagree with this post.

The WEF is waging a culture war and corporations are on the front lines, downed earnings and negative outlooks are an EXPECTATION, however the communist agenda? Busy inking bi lateral trade deals with local currency instead of the USD.

So, as far as I can tell, the WEF can only wage so as long as the USD remains fairly strong, however we're now on a TIMER to when that cease, so basically, it's a RACE to see who outlast who for the new Post Pax Americana Era...

Stuff like stock price and market value is not a good way to measure the impact of something like this. It's way too easy to manipulate metrics like that. We need to wait and see what happens to Budweiser's sales figures.

I mean, look at Disney. Nobody watches anything they've put out in the last 5-10 years or so. They probably make all of their money on "legacy" properties from their classic age. (I'm counting the Disney Land/World parks in that group.)

The only current cash cow they have is the Marvel Universe, and it looks like they're getting pretty close to wringing the last dollar out of that franchise. (They've already done X-Men, Spider Man, Iron Man, Black Panther, and the Avengers. Who's left? I don't think they're exactly salivating over the likes of Howard the Duck.) Those 7000 layoffs are not going to be the last, not by a long shot.

originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
Stuff like stock price and market value is not a good way to measure the impact of something like this. It's way too easy to manipulate metrics like that. We need to wait and see what happens to Budweiser's sales figures.

Huh? The stock price is driven by earnings reports which are in turn driven by sales/revenue.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
Stuff like stock price and market value is not a good way to measure the impact of something like this. It's way too easy to manipulate metrics like that. We need to wait and see what happens to Budweiser's sales figures.

Huh? The stock price is driven by earnings reports which are in turn driven by sales/revenue.

Dude, this controversy is, what, 2 weeks old at most? What earnings reports do you think have come out in the last couple of days?

a reply to: Maxmars

We are moving away from a free market economy to a command economy like they have in China.

Instead of the consumer determining the cost, availability of a good or service, it is the state that get's to determine it.

originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
Dude, this controversy is, what, 2 weeks old at most? What earnings reports do you think have come out in the last couple of days?

Dude. Did I say any earnings reports did come out? Try reading that again. The inference is you aren't manipulating the stock price since they are based on earnings. Unless you think AB InBev is gonna fudge those 'for the gay'.

a reply to: Maxmars

Disney is down 26% this year. Marvel is mostly dead, comics are dead, star wars RIP, witcher, willow, rings of power, DND, Disney live action, bud light down 5 billion, countless other examples.

The problem isn't "woke the problem is being woke just the click checkmarks and to pander to people who aren't even the main audience or customer.


These companies don't care at all about woke ideology all they care about is trends and they think it's hip to be woke.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: SRPrime
Sometimes I wonder if y'all even listen to what you say? If you're laying off people; you're shrinking the labor force.

Sometimes I wonder if any of you understand basic economics. If you shrink your labor force do your monthly costs go up or down? Which one of those leads to more revenue?

Companies have long practiced labor reductions when growth was strong, it's called 'maximizing earnings'.

You sure about that? Their movies barely pull a profit after the massive success of marvel phase 3. Ant man was the most recent massive failure. Black panther didn't match the first in profits , Thor 4 underperformed. The only massively profitable movie was Spiderman.