Excellent! Still doesn't mean Apple has to extend their interest in helping minorities or less privileged people get jobs worldwide, especially when their HQ campuses are U.S-based.
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Apple Commits Extra $30 Million to Racial Equity and Justice Initiative
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“Diveristy and Inclusion” is a sham that just dumbs down everything.
It probably is a business investment. The more people you have that can earn a good living and contribute to society, means you have more people that'll buy Apple products, develop new apps, become employees of tomorrow. Though they could target something bigger like universal higher education. All those future engineers, scientists, and doctors in the USA become shelf stackers for Amazon just because they weren't born into a family that can afford to send them to college. I am very thankful to universal higher education, nothing holds you back when you can get an education without barriers and crippling debt.
Yes, that’s exactly what it means. Unless they can prove they merit the help through qualification of intelligence and meeting the standards for admission.
If Tim doesnt step down and allows a "colored" person to take his place. Then he is a bigot racist.
-thats how the woke work.
-thats how the woke work.
Equal opportunity is only fair if we're all starting from the same position. It's not 'communism' to help those who might need support to get ahead as well as their peers. It's civilised.
If you aren't against need-based scholarships, then how do you rectify this statement: "One person over the other shouldn't get specials means to help them get there."? Aren't need-based scholarships "special means?"
So you’re not qualified for medical school. We’ll let you in anyway, and even give you an M.D. degree, and allow to you to “practice” on people.
Yeah, those are the doctors I want. 🙄
i'm a bit confused — why didn't you qualify for "white" scholarships being white?
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Thats not how it works. Everyone in Scotland can get two degrees for free and you get student loans to cover living expenses that automatically come out your wages like a tax after you earn over £18,000 a year (which with about £100 a year at that income). So all you have to do is quality for the course you want to do, and if you aren't qualified for it there are pre programs to get you all the base knowledge you need. You don't end up with under qualified people, you end up with no obstacles for someone who wants to be an engineer or a doctor to work hard at it and they'll get. It doesn't matter if your parents have millions in the bank or have long given up on working and live of the dole, you as an individual can work your way up the same as anyone else. Isn't that closer to the American dream? getting yourself through collage rather than being lucky that your rich parents put money aside for your education?
Exactly this. But you must be biased since you only hire white men, it doesn't matter whether the hiring/talent pool is in the same demographic by and large. Diversity is a misnomer on these fronts; you want a team that's diverse in thought so that someone can think differently about a problem while everyone else is stumped. The irony of labels like race, gender identity, sexual identity being so important in these decisions for a people who 'refuse labels'...
That's the big picture thinking a lot of people don't consider and I'm glad you brought it up.
Growing the middle class makes more consumers. if you elevate people out of poverty, those people live longer, have more disposable income and it's a generational impact that ripples globally.
Pretty much, you can't build a business on people that have to work three jobs just to pay the rent. You need more and more people with disposable income that'll have kids that then 'need' a iPhone, PS5, iMac, etc. Do you want to offer $100 computers or make it that more people that can afford $3000 computers?
Just like apple raising money for blm while none of the money goes to good use just to the Marxist leaders that brought mansions it’s all a scam and apple has to be so woke and progressive it’s sad, I’m loosing all respect for apple as a company I still use there products but they are becoming social activists over a tech company I wanna why iOS 15 is a boring release they don’t hire the best people for the job anymore they just need to prove they are diverse, just go to an Apple store half of them know nothing about apple or what they are doing but they all look so inclusive that’s all that matters to them
There’s not enough money in the U.S. to make up for 75% of black kids growing up fatherless. That’s just the way it is.
I feel jaded about Apple these days. On the one hand they undertake reasonable actions like promoting research on enhancing diversity. On the other hand they propose to install surveillance software on iPhones, creating a blue print for surveillance for governments, the abuse of which could hit various minorities (e.g., gay people) in authoritarian countries.
So the 100 years of denied access that created the wealth gap for people of color in America didn't happen? It's always been a level playing field?
Surely you don't believe that.
“Diversity is our strength,” which is why our standards keep being lowered and lowered. Weird.
Is the wealth gap between Europe and Africa because of racism?
Growing up without a father has zero impact on the child. Certainly didn’t stop me gettimg my degrees and a very good job. You need ‘a’ parent or guardian, but even then as soon as you turn 16 you can cut ties and develop with baggage.