Nobody Wants to Work (for Terrible Companies) Anymore!
The ongoing tone-deaf debate over a lack of workers.
The co-founder of Home Depot, Bernie Marcus, made headlines again for saying a bunch of tone-deaf stuff about young people and frontline workers. As a hardcore Trumper and capitalist shill, he griped about how he doesn’t want the “woke generation” leading businesses and spending money on things like diversity and climate mitigation. He claimed, without evidence, that those things don’t impact the bottom line, and also that focusing on mitigating climate change has caused most of our problems today.
“We need leaders who are basically thinking about the shareholders and their employees, and how well the shareholders are doing and their employees,” he said without a hint of irony. “And I think today it’s all about woke diversity, things that don’t hit the bottom line.”
Other random quotes included things like “They’re entitled, they’re given everything.” and “The government, in many cases, if you don’t work, you get as much money as when you did work…And so you get this laziness, which you have, and it’s basically a socialistic society.”
And, of course, he pulled out the old classic that “Nobody wants to work anymore, especially office people…They want to work three days a week. It’s…
