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Woke, Inc.

Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

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Woke, Inc.

By: Vivek Ramaswamy
Narrated by: Vivek Ramaswamy
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 In this New York Times bestseller, a young and successful entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism.

There’s a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every advertisement we see and every product we buy, from our morning coffee to a new pair of shoes. “Stakeholder capitalism” makes rosy promises of a better, more diverse, environmentally-friendly world, but in reality this ideology championed by America’s business and political leaders robs us of our money, our voice, and our identity.

Vivek Ramaswamy is a traitor to his class. He’s founded multibillion-dollar enterprises, led a biotech company as CEO, he became a hedge fund partner in his 20s, trained as a scientist at Harvard and a lawyer at Yale, and grew up the child of immigrants in a small town in Ohio. Now he takes us behind the scenes into corporate boardrooms and five-star conferences, into Ivy League classrooms and secretive nonprofits, to reveal the defining scam of our century.

The modern woke-industrial complex divides us as a people. By mixing morality with consumerism, America’s elites prey on our innermost insecurities about who we really are. They sell us cheap social causes and skin-deep identities to satisfy our hunger for a cause and our search for meaning, at a moment when we as Americans lack both.

This book not only rips back the curtain on the new corporatist agenda, it offers a better way forward. America’s elites may want to sort us into demographic boxes, but we don’t have to stay there. Woke, Inc. begins as a critique of stakeholder capitalism and ends with an exploration of what it means to be an American in 2021—a journey that begins with cynicism and ends with hope. Business Economics Political Science Politicians Politics & Activism Politics & Government Professionals & Academics Theory Capitalism Social Justice

Critic reviews

“Vivek Ramaswamy provides the single most informative and insightful analysis yet of woke ideology…Woke, Inc. is indispensable for understanding how America's newest and most consequential cultural dogma is fundamentally transforming virtually every sector of our lives.”—Glenn Greenwald, author of Securing Democracy
"In this engaging, brilliant book, Vivek Ramaswamy hits the nail on the head: companies go woke because they get richer from division rather than unity. This book is an essential weapon in the battle to reclaim America's soul."—JD Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy and founder of Narya Capital
“A provocative critique, wrapped in a gripping personal story that pulls you in from page one. Vivek Ramaswamy is breakthrough brilliant and arrestingly original. Woke, Inc. is essential reading for anyone who cares about America’s democracy, economy, and future.”—Amy Chua, Yale Law professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
"In a world where many fear to say what they think, Vivek courageously attacks the hypocrisy of corporations and their managements...his speaking truth to power will elevate this important discussion and advance our understanding of the heretofore not-to-be-discussed risks of stakeholder capitalism. I strongly recommend you give this book a careful read."—Bill Ackman, Founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management
“Vivek Ramaswamy…offers a path back toward a more free and prosperous society.”—Arthur C. Brooks, professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and New York Times bestselling author
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A slighty slow start, but worth sticking with. Some of the information goes a long way to explaining the malaise of modern times. The author reads his own book, you can tell he's passionate about his subject. Toward the end the author offers some possible way outs which are quite interesting. I'd defo listen to it a 2nd time, there is a lot of information in here so you'd not absorb it all on the first go.

Good intro to woke-ism and corporate America

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If you are worried about overly polarized politics, this book is a must for you!

It is a shame the book is so focused on the US rather than on democracies as a whole but it holds important lessons for all of us.

thought provoking and crucially relevant

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It's a courageous book, and makes some good points, but I'm not sure I'm that interested in life lessons from any 36 year old, let alone one who happened to get lucky on a startup. There are some more careful, painstaking critiques of critical theory (Helen Pluckrose’s Cynical Theories, and more elegantly argued angry ones (Douglas Murray’s The Madness of Crowds): this one has too much of the theoretical certainty that all successful young men have, and not really enough rigour or real-world application. As he goes on, Ramaswamy’s Republican leanings become more overt, making this seem an idealogical objection rather than a practical one. The thing is, the practical objections are always going to be more damning than idealogical ones.

Well intended, but misses its mark a little

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