State Street also used that as a marketing stunt to launch an ETF while they were being sued for sexual harassment and pay discrepancies between male and female employees. Marketing is marketing is marketing.

yes, and also 300 companies added female directors

nothing exists in a vacuum

Nothing exists in a vacuum just like solely attributing companies adding female directors to a marketing stunt. There was large momentum on this front already that would have happened with or without this.

The point is that this is a positive use of centralized private ownership

The only real rebuttal would therefore be negative uses of centralized private ownership

I never meant to imply positive things couldn’t happen, just that it’s silly to assume one very specific positive thing is the most likely thing to happen.

Thats why I gave an example of a positive thing that did happen

Or cherry-picked one?

Of the ripest variety