“purpose paradigm”
January 18, 2019 9:34 AM   Subscribe

“However, the truth is that there is no convincing evidence at all of this supposed success. A fast-growing body of reports, analyses, and research, including reports from Amnesty International, shows how self-regulating business initiatives, including the palm-oil certification scheme of Unilever, make no real impact or worse, inhibit real change with a false illusion of progress. “One of the systemic problems that Unilever’s ‘sustainable’ palm-oil scheme refuses to acknowledge,” says Eric Gottwald from the International Labor Rights Forum, “is that workers on plantations need independent trade unions to improve their working conditions, not corporate-sponsored “certifiers.” A six-month long investigation into Unilever’s supply chain in 2017 by five millennial journalists from Investico, a Dutch platform for investigative journalism, did not find evidence to back up Unilever’s leadership claims either. At the five certified palm-oil plantations that they visited in Indonesia, as part of the investigation, the team encountered the same environmental and labor violations that are known to be pervasive among non-certified plantations.” Big Business Has a New Scam: The ‘Purpose Paradigm’ Multinational corporations are luring millennial workers with empty promises and self-serving slogans. (The Nation)
posted by The Whelk (2 comments total) 19 users marked this as a favorite
 
Hardly new. Look. Corporations are fundamentally amoral. They have no function other than generating profits for owners. They will lie about anything for as long as they can get away with it if the lie serves that function. They're much more like narrowly programmed robots than people. Any other interpretation of corporate behavior in capitalism - particularly those interpretations promoted by corporations themselves - have been repeatedly proven false and dangerous.
posted by RandlePatrickMcMurphy at 12:05 PM on January 18, 2019 [1 favorite]


Is this indoctrination actually warranted by changes in the likelihood among millennials to pursue corporate jobs for survival's sake, or is this an attempt to improve morale?
posted by Selena777 at 1:24 PM on January 18, 2019


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