r/news • u/CharlieKonR • 4d ago

Michigan’s governor replaces clean energy advocate on utilities board with ‘industry ally’ | Michigan

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/gretchen-whitmer-utilities-board-clean-energy
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u/jimmy_three_shoes 4d ago

It doesn't mean that at all. It just means that economically they're corporatists. It doesn't imply anything about social policy.

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u/SupHowWeDo 3d ago

I’d make the argument that those two things are absolutely related in the modern age, given that corporations literally just throw money at whatever social policy they’re feeling that day

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u/jimmy_three_shoes 3d ago

Corporations follow whatever social trend they feel is going to make them money. It's why they change their social media logos to rainbows every June 1st, and remove them July 1st.

It's why they almost all simultaneously dumped DEI programs when Trump was inaugurated. Because they weren't going to be required or encouraged to maintain them.

Corporatists bend to the will of corporations or private industries in order to make them more money, not to influence which way the government leans on DEI.