Posted on 06/25/2020 7:24:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Future historians with an eye for inflection points may well focus on the Wall Street Journal of June 12, 2020. A page 1 banner reads, “Companies Pledge Actions to Promote Racial Justice” and recounts how in response to the George Floyd killing, Apple and Google are pledging millions to promote racial inclusion. Less than a week later, Google was more specific: allocating $175 million to sharply increase the number of black Google executives (30% by 2025), upping the firm’s anti-racism efforts, $100 million for black owned start-ups, $15 million for improved training for black job applicants and $3 million to schools to close gaps in computer education and STEM fields.
If Wall Street Journal readers flipped it over to the last page of Section A, they would have seen the banner, “China Pours Funds Into Tech Push.” The story told of China’s trillion-dollar investments in computers to overtake the U.S. in cutting-edge technology. Now more than a dozen Chinese cities will launch projects ($935 billion), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s five-year program will invest $14 trillion in artificial intelligence, data projects, and communications. Private Chinese firms, notably Alibaba and Tencent, are similarly upping their high-tech investment.
These figures of course tell only a partial story -- American firms are only putting millions into “woke” enterprises, but billions will continue to be invested in high-tech to match Chinese efforts. Also excluded are U.S. government-funded agencies such as DARPA and, conceivably, U.S. brainpower toe-to-toe will outperform the Chinese despite their lavish spending.
Nevertheless, it is certainly fair to ask why these U.S. tech companies embrace million-dollar racial justice schemes when every similar past diversity effort has failed? Have Google, Apple, Oracle and others, unlike their Chinese rivals, recently discovered that a diverse workforce builds a better supercomputer?
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Would employing workers from historically under-represented groups give U.S. firms an edge when competing against Chinese rivals? Alas, claims regarding the diversity benefit seem over-heated rhetoric. One data-free claim, for example, asserts that upping diversity would add an additional $400 billion in revenue to the tech industry. As these advocates put it, “…more diverse companies, we believe, are better able to win top talent and improve their customer orientation, employee satisfaction, and decision making, and all that leads to a virtuous cycle of increasing returns (italics added for emphasis).” Yes, profitable companies may relish diversity but equally plausible is that ample profits versus being almost broke permits the luxury of diversity while polishing corporate images.
If the diversity mania goes unchallenged, American Big Tech may slowly lose its edge as consumers gravitate to better software and communications gear built in China though engineered by Americans unable to advance up the Google or Apple career ladder (paid for by China of course). When you consider the stakes here, one can only suspect that China is secretly funding the diversity push.
ISO certification did not mean you provided a good product, it meant that you always did things the same way.
“Less than a week later, Google was more specific: allocating $175 million to sharply increase the number of black Google executives (30% by 2025)…”
Can you spell wishful thinking? Google better have a humongous human resources department because when you are a high tech company, the only place to bury untrained and unskilled people hired for the color of their skin to tout your diversity is the human resource department which requires no tech skills and where they can to the least harm.
6 years is hardly enough to mean anything. The meaningful part of these pushes are in grade school, 6 years later they’re in high school not the work force. In the long run increasing the talent pool is good for an industry. That’s why sports leagues put so much money and time into kids sports. That’s their talent pool in 15 to 20 years. And a bigger pool is a better pool.
” Have Google, Apple, Oracle and others, unlike their Chinese rivals, recently discovered that a diverse workforce builds a better supercomputer?”
This “diversity” isn’t supposed to help them do anything better, except sell their products to woketivists, because it’s just a marketing scheme.
Yeah in 2019, 55.5% of all Google hires were Indian, in prior years, pretty much the same. Almost 44% of Google’s entire workforce is Indian and most of its contractor workforce is Indian. No diversity there.
I thought President Trump issued an EO stopping the H1B visas?
But it won’t be “increasing the ‘talent’ pool” because the talent isn’t there when the expectations are ‘gimme’
I’ve witnessed this in my own professional education and worklife. You can carry deadweight only so long
Then it’s “so long” for good
Sure it will. It’s about percentages. Again, look at sports. There’s maybe 1% of the population that have the talent, but that talent won’t show up without the opportunity. You spread around opportunity as far and wide as possible when they’re kids to find the 1% with the talent and have them be available when they’re adults. Because as kids there’s 2 groups: the ones already getting the opportunities, and the one that aren’t. And the ones that aren’t you never get to find out which ones have talent and which ones don’t, and your pool winds up smaller for it. All these donations are is the software version of Pop Warner scholarships. And that concept has been working just fine for the NFL for 60 years.
Those were 2019 numbers. And the Indian CEO of Google/Alphabet is pissed, as are the entire tech community. The EO still did nothing to get rid of the fraud ridden Indian OPT program. Where are the placements and internships for American STEM Graduates? Oh at McDonald’s, Safeway and Starbucks.
Count on a liberal POS Federal Judge to put an injunction on it.
“Google was more specific: allocating $175 million to sharply increase the number of black Google executives (30% by 2025), upping the firm’s anti-racism efforts”
Wait wait. The blacks are only 12% of the US population. OOh I know what they are doing. Give 30% to Hispanics, 30% to Asians, and 10% to white transgenders and gays. There, fixed that problem.
Sports is the worst example you can cite It’s flooded with an overabundance of one race, based on physical attributes
With tech, you’ll get more of the same, poor or rural whites and poor Asians based on the attributes of IQ. It’s not a coincidence that those two groups dominate the tech and other intellectual fields, to the exclusion of blacks
Nope. It’s the best example. It’s flooded with people who couldn’t afford to play the sport as kids if it wasn’t for the leagues spreading money around to get as many kids as possible in the jr sports. Most of the players in the NFL could never have afforded the equipment if it wasn’t for the programs the NFL funds. So they never would have been NFL players. Investment, return.
Actually poor and rural DO NOT dominate tech right now. Not poor and urban dominate tech. Because computers, kind of like football pads, are expensive, and poor kids don’t get to get into that stuff.
We played sandlot in both FB and BB as kids, touch, flag, sometimes tackle without equipment, when the leagues were virtually all white
Although all of us dreamed to play in the big leagues, it was not being athletically built that kept us out, not that there weren’t organized Little Leagues
Instead, most of us went on to successful white collar careers because we had what it took. And not with tutors, test prep courses.
And when both professional schools and the professions “expanded the base” thru reverse discrimination, the market squeezed the inefficients out, which was most of them.
Sandlot doesn’t get you into the food chain though. That’s part of the free equipment too. Not only are they giving more kids opportunities, they’re putting their eyeballs on these kids and seeing who is showing promise.
It’s not a lack of organized little leagues I’m talking about. It’s getting as many kids as possible into them. The equipment to get a kid in little league football is hundreds of dollars, and they’ll out grow it by next season. That’s out of the reach of a lot of families. But the league knows some of those kids will have the stuff.
And it runs similar in tech. You can’t learn to program without a computer. And the IDE. And some SDKs. And someplace to put your programs. Give it to em.
Cause you also have to understand the scale. Google pulls down $160 BILLION a year. A $200 million investment is nothing to them. It’s like you or me throwing a quarter in the wishing well. If it doesn’t pan out, who cares. But if it does...
Nobody is talking discrimination. We’re talking INVESTMENT. Find poor kids that express some interest in computers they can’t afford and give them one, with all the tools. And see what happens. Stop thinking like a democrat, you stopped being one. Start thinking like somebody that understand the long game and enlightened self interest. The whole thing makes sense if you bother to actually THINK.
IMO your way would barely make a dent. It would be ANOTHER HUGE expenditure in teaching, admin and equipment costs. We’ve seen that over and over in the last, what, 40 years, 30 years?
Oh, and those accompanying “affirmative action” programs. Throwing $$$ at the problem has shown NOT to work. See virtually every urban school system (what’s left of them)
If it was a simple as you make it out to be, we’d see it already. Instead, tech is filled with smart, ambitious, hardworking people who made it on their own, and didn’t need to be there to fulfill in whole or in part, an ethnic quota.
And that’s what this “movement” is all about. Quotas. Freebies. And markets will inevitably flush them out.
The problem with government run programs is they’re government run. Inefficient. Untargeted. And not tracking kids that show promise. Corporate run programs are vastly different. Again, sport. There’s a reason ALL the leagues do this. And not just in America. Find the kids with promise, and groom them. It’s a basic concept. And it WORKS.
Read the % of foreign workers that is being hired over Americans.
Voters Scoff as Apple’s Tim Cook Declares ‘Deeply Disappointed’ with H-1B Visa Worker Halt
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2020/06/24/voters-scoff-as-apples-tim-cook-announces-deeply-disappointed-with-visa-worker-stoppage/
Kids WILL play sports. They dream of being athletes because it’s “fun” prestigious But work? That’s a different matter Another reason your analogy fails
Most kids will choose play over work. And with huge dropout rates, good luck finding those who see homework and studying and “mentoring” as something they’ll choose over play or hangin out
You might find a few worth saving. But the expenditures of time, $$$ and frustration won’t be worth it. Not even close. I was once told by a teacher girlfriend that “if you can just EDUCATE them” Sounded great on paper, but in the real world, lots just plainly DONT WANT to be “educated” And the ones that do, have mostly found their way on their own
Lots more don’t even want to be around a white collar field. Some might do trade schools but the traditional stuff, not a chance.
Ain’t happening.
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