Preppy Ivy, ESG, Moves
December 11, 2022
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ESG
The notorious SBF did an interview recently, I kinda agree on this one:
You shocked a lot of people when you referred in a recent interview to the “dumb game that we woke Westerners play.” My understanding is that you were talking about corporate social responsibility and E.S.G., not about effective altruism, right?
That’s right.
To what extent do you feel your image and donations gave you cover? I know you say you didn’t do anything wrong intentionally. But I wonder how much you were in on the joke.
Gave me cover to do what, though? I think what I was in on, so to speak, was that a lot of the C.S.R. stuff was bullshit. Half of that was always just branding, and I think that’s true for most companies. And to some extent everyone knew, but it was a game everyone played together. And it’s a dumb game.
NPR did a two-part series on ESG, give it a listen:
Maggie Haberman well-described a man with a lot of moves:
by Matt Reuter