The people who work at the epicenter of our nation’s financial markets are a breed apart.
And the environment they work in is unlike any in all the world.
To dial back the toxic atmosphere of the workplace.
Play nice with others.
That is, until now.
The good times are back.
They’re ready to Make Wall Street Great Again.
They are also scrubbing anything that could be perceived as woke from public statements, corporate documents and advertising.
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Last week, social media group Meta exemplified all the developments at once.
…Even the way people on Wall Street talk and interact is changing.
I feel liberated, said a top banker.
We can say retard and pussy without the fear of getting cancelled .
its a new dawn.
“A new dawn.”
to make it have Free Markets, you’ve got to have Free Speech, I suppose.
pop crack open the Mirriam-Webster app and look for a proper word in the thesaurus?
One that wouldn’t get you fired?
This has got to be Karl Marx' worst nightmare.
The people who own the means of production exploiting the labor of the working class as always.
But also free to call the lumpen proletariat nasty names like it’s pre-Bolshevik Russia all over again.
For the rest of us, we’ll see how this goes.
My guess is our democracy will survive.
In the late ’80s, Congress actually held hearings on swear words in music.
That resulted in warning labels on CD cases.
And a generation later, we’ve only gotten more swear words.
Besides, when analysts at DEI firms are running around using much worse words than these:
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I don’t think what a bunch of investors call each other around the office is our biggest problem.
We’ll be fine.
You do you, Wall Street.
