Because their owners are becoming the new and improved oil barons and want to be included in their cool boys club ?
may every fascist be able to afford a rope.
Because capitalism and fascism are different aspects of the exact same system.
Because they never had morale but are high on greed.
Because they can and they enjoy making you mad. On serious note, corporations follow the government. They follow trends set by totalitarianism. Where do you think DEI and ESG come from? They’re from the government.
Imagine believing that the barest scraps of equality and sustainability are “totalitarianism”.
This is a very uninformed take. Giant corporations don’t “enjoy” making people mad any more than they enjoy making a product or offering a service. It’s about money, and the fact of the matter is, fascism makes a very small few very wealthy behind a facade of populism.
Also, companies didn’t follow “Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion” or “Environmental, Social and Governance” policies because they enjoyed it. They didn’t do it, because they enjoyed making misogynists, racists, and climate denialists mad. They did it because they would have faced punishment from the judiciary if they didn’t comply. Those kinds of initiatives aren’t profitable.
Now that the guardrails are gone and the wheels are off, they can profiteer and discriminate and otherwise abuse the rest of us with virtual impunity—all to “make the line go up.”
Because they’re all run by narcissists and psychopaths, because capitalism directly rewards narcissists and criminals…
The main attraction of fascism is that it helps assholes to feel good about themselves.