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The culture here is capitalism. Capitalism is a worship of capital and its acquisition by any means. Including pushing for new fuels that give 25% of people cancer, or by breaking unions that are trying to prevent East Palestines, or by classifying people as "independent contractors" to avoid paying for benefits, or by swallowing up competition, or by then attempting to thwart a costly antitrust lawsuit by "accidentally" losing evidence.
Google's culture was "don't be evil", and then capitalism happened (see above) and we get the parent remark: "the only evil to a capitalist is loss of capital"
Now what was it you were saying about a dress code?
I'd like to point out that it was specifically the Whitehouse, under Biden, which withdrew the ability of train unions to negotiate via strike. That isn't capitalism. That was an administration making a choice because they felt additional grocery store shortages would hurt their polling numbers. That wasn't the free market - that was Government Intervention.
And why is it that gigs where people are ICs are desirable? Why do so many people work for Uber? If it's a bad gig, why take it? I've talked to a lot of Uber drivers and they like it - they can work as much or as little as they want and adapt their driving to their income needs. That doesn't sound like "capitalism".
Capitalism, as you use it here, might as well be Satan. Lost your lunch? That was Satan. Tripped on the way to school? Satan again. It's everywhere, it's the thing always at fault, no further explanation needed. It's a word that says "stop thinking, we have the cause of the problem - it's Capitalism".
"Culture war" isn't just "disagreements", it's disagreements about things that only exist in the realm of culture, e.g. saggy pants or watching people of the same gender kiss on TV.
Economics, in fact, plays a central role here, given the profit motive that, to the bad actors, justifies these actions despite their illegality.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_war
It sounds like you are confusing culture with aesthetics.
During a discussion of said company's defiance of a federal judge, such a critique seems pertinent to me!
We have continually observed the most powerful actors in our system abusing it in consistent ways: cornering markets, becoming monopolies, bullying smaller companies, constructing walled gardens, diminishing the concept of consumer ownership, etc.
I think we ought to allow comments like theirs in discussions like this.
> Societal values
Notice it doesn't say economic or material values.
Does the age of monarchy still have impacts on the UK? My imported gin still says "By Order of Her Majesty" on it. "God save the Queen" (or now King) is, intrinsically, part of UK culture.
> values, beliefs, and practices
That includes practices of law keeping, beliefs in how the law is executed, altered and enshrined, etc.
In the US specifically, the founding fathers wrote _at length_ on capitalism, the free market, and how communal economic systems (they were writing prior to Marx) didn't scale. Our society is built on capitalism, through and through.
We can't just pretend words mean what we want them to mean. Language as a means of communion requires more from us.