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Disclaimer: I'm just pulling this thought out of my ass without sources.

It struck me today that right and left leaning organizations have different classification for success. Right leaning organizations prioritize results. Left leaning organizations prioritize methodology. Take a business like a restaurant as an example. A right leaning approach would point to profits as success. A left leaning approach would pick some other or several arbitrary goals such as, staff gender or racial inclusivity, ingredient origin integrity, sliding scale price inequality dictated by identity, etc.

This tendency of left leaning organizations to focus on a larger vision and neglect the bottom line is a recipe to almost always lose to a competitor in a free market. There is a way to create a successful business that also achieves arbitrary goals, but it is a cart before the horse situation. First post profit then you can afford to experiment. Left leaning thought considers the planning process and the methodology itself as success which is not a formula for survival. Hence the association of get woke go broke.

Disclaimer: I'm just pulling this thought out of my ass without sources. It struck me today that right and left leaning organizations have different classification for success. Right leaning organizations prioritize results. Left leaning organizations prioritize methodology. Take a business like a restaurant as an example. A right leaning approach would point to profits as success. A left leaning approach would pick some other or several arbitrary goals such as, staff gender or racial inclusivity, ingredient origin integrity, sliding scale price inequality dictated by identity, etc. This tendency of left leaning organizations to focus on a larger vision and neglect the bottom line is a recipe to almost always lose to a competitor in a free market. There is a way to create a successful business that also achieves arbitrary goals, but it is a cart before the horse situation. First post profit then you can afford to experiment. Left leaning thought considers the planning process and the methodology itself as success which is not a formula for survival. Hence the association of get woke go broke.

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[–] [Deleted] 3 points (+3|-0)

There are a whole lot of sweeping statements here.

right and left leaning organizations have different classification for success

Right leaning organizations prioritize results

Left leaning organizations prioritize methodology

left leaning organizations to focus on a larger vision and neglect the bottom line is a recipe to almost always lose to a competitor

get woke go broke

Canyou please provide an evidential basis for these.

[–] MirrorMan [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

The whole point of this post was sweeping statements which is why I lead with the disclaimer. I'm not trying to pass these thoughts as factual. The idea struck me today how certain businesses expend energy and resources on goals that have nothing to do at all with their bottom line and went from there. Say the goal of the business is to produce a screw. Business A focuses 100% of their energy and resources towards producing screws. Business B uses 2% on hiring personnel to promote job offers and screen personnel to maintain an internally deemed ideal ethnically diverse workforce, 33% on alternative energy sources integrated into the production process, and 65% into producing screws. Which business of these two competitors would survive?

[–] das_american 0 points (+0|-0)

Which business of these two competitors would survive?

Neither one. Business A would put business B out right away. Business B workers would infiltrate business A workforce and sue the ever living shit out of them for discrimination.