While Japanese video game companies such as Capcom and SEGA seemingly double down on Western ESG policies and agendas, the same cannot be said for Japanese investors have dumped $4.5 Billion dollars out of ESG hedge funds in 2023.
If you don’t know what ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) is I wouldn’t blame you, at a first glance it sounds like some sort of corporate initiative for a more economical operation with more diverse hiring practices.
That’s not really far from the truth, in reality, ESG is more or less a corporate cabal, orchestrated by the likes of BlackRock and Vanguard who together own over $18 Trillion USD worth of assets under their belt.
Their ESG initiative is more or less blackmail but with a smile, BlackRock and Vanguard own a nice portion of just about every single publicly traded corporation you can think of, their investment is essential for corporations and in return all they have to do is follow certain guidelines such as Environmental, Social and Governance.
This strategy is a calculated effort to inject “woke” or politically correct ideologies into these organizations, leading to decisions like hiring based solely on factors like skin color, sexual orientation, or gender, rather than prioritizing skills, capabilities, and qualifications.
And obviously, that bullshit seeps into the products that these companies sell / produce as well, with modern movies and especially video games focusing more so on self-censorship when targeting Western audiences, downplaying the beauty and femininity of female characters is just the starting procedure.
What BlackRock and Vanguard want from you is to make your product more “inclusive” and “diverse” which almost certainly means that they’re going to abruptly force poorly written shades of marginalized races down your throats combined with characters that are homosexual and or something else.
Modern movies are unwatchable while the modern game is often ugly progressive rubbish. Made by individuals who seemingly hate their audience and especially hate attractive women, because they’re not actually made for us (the consumer).
You see, in return for promoting their ESG policies and agendas inside of their corporate structure down to the very products that they made, they receive not only an “ESG Score” but also large capital funding.
Essentially, who needs people to buy a product if BlackRock and Vanguard are paying them anyway?
Current Japanese PM, Fumio Kishida seemingly wishes to accelerate the demise of the once prosperous country, by opening its borders and culture to the whims of BlackRock, begging for investments and funding.
Large enough Japanese companies who delve into global markets have long since become attached to the ESG plague, such as CAPCOM, Bandai Namco, Koei Tecmo, Square Enix, KADOKAWA. SEGA, Nintendo, and Sony.
But mercifully for consumers, ESG hedge funds have been going bust left and right as their whole business model of effectively printing money in exchange for woke dogshit that nobody purchases seemingly isn’t as fruitful as one thought as the global economy goes down the shitter.
And that trend continues even as Japanese gaming tyrants continue to focus on the fallacy of hedge fund capital rather than prioritize actual sales and growth for revenue as they used to.
According to Morningstar, Japanese investors have pulled a total of 660 billion Yen, roughly $4.5 billion USD from ESG hedge funds throughout 2023 with a primary focus of these investors favoring actual investment rather than so called “sustainability”.
In 2021, there was a significant surge in ESG fund investments in Japan, amounting to a total of 1.8 trillion yen in inflows. However, currently, investors are showing a heightened interest in foreign index funds and other related areas.
“Rather than being a response to investor demand for sustainable investments, ESG was seen as a theme,” said Daisuke Motori, director of manager research at Morningstar Japan
A Morningstar report indicates that there were no new ESG products introduced between October and December of 2023.
Despite more money continuing to flow into these funds than out, recent setbacks have inflicted significant damage. As a result, the ship is beginning to sink, with an increasing number of people seeing through the facade of ESG, which ultimately aims to degrade the quality of the products they consume.
Embracing ESG policies has led to corporations losing billions of dollars, as it has undoubtedly alienated both paying customers and investors. ESG Boycotts have caused a staggering loss of $5 trillion in “sustainable investing assets,” with ESG funds in the U.S. alone experiencing a 50 percent decrease.
Is the end of ESG upon us? It appears so, and its demise cannot arrive soon enough as we essentially crater towards hyperinflation and or another video game crash.
Environmental, Social and Governance is a BlackRock / Vanguard social credit system, the more “woke” a corporation appears from its hiring practices and corporate structure, favoring marginalized groups and races over competent employees, but the practice seeps into the produce as well.
“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” policies not only alienate a company’s core customers by shifting the primary focus away from the product itself by facilitating worthless diversity quotas over quality, merit and skill.
ESG’s influence remains prevalent in our society, and we are likely to experience more of its destructive nature before it eventually collapses in on itself. There’s only so much the average person can do, voting with your wallets only helps accelerate the demise of these nefarious practices that have infected the media we hold dear with its cancerous agenda.
ESG serves as a framework for “Ethical, Sustainable Investment” that guides many investment funds. Essentially, ESG itself does not provide any monetary value; rather, it informs investors about which companies are deemed worthy of investment based on their ESG score.
This score is determined by various factors related to ethics and sustainability. However, the “Ethics” component of ESG can be highly selective, influenced largely by the individuals who crafted the guidelines and their personal social, economic, and political interests.
This selective nature is evident in instances where practices like leveraging child slave labor in third-world countries may not lower a company’s ESG score, while seemingly less significant matters such as including certain “problematic” content in a video game might.
Put simply, the power and influence of ESG guidelines and funds rely entirely on investors’ confidence that adhering to their recommendations will result in profit. The recent withdrawal of Japanese investors signifies a substantial loss of trust among Japanese-based investment firms in ESG principles.
I for one refuse to financially fund game companies who arbitrarily favor woke indoctrination and Western ideologies over producing quality content for paying customers.
From self-censorship to de-feminizing female character designs, imposing DRM on old game releases, I will never contribute to the eventual demise of these corporations as they double down on ESG social funding instead of producing games that sell in large quantities for profit.
Any corporation that refuses to course correct is inevitably steering towards its own demise. As global economic woes increase, their purported “profits” will only plummet further, fueled by the demise of ESG funds that support them.
