Only You Can Stop Corporate Virtue-Signaling

Dr. Munr Kazmir
4 min readNov 22, 2020

Which is cheaper: Cleaning up environmentally unsound and unscrupulous business practices or making a woke tv commercial?

Young men are pictured burning electrical wires to recover copper at Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana on September 2, 2019. Agbogbloshie is the world’s largest e-waste dump. (photo: Muntaka Chasant)

The extent to which advertisers, and the multinational corporate conglomerates they serve, control our lives is a question for the ages.

Ad agencies cut their teeth on the greatest generation, and they’ve honed their craft carefully on each…

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