Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ...
by leereeves on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @09:36PM
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True, I exaggerate a bit when I say "nobody" cares; I mean:
Do these questions come up in Presidential campaigns? Are they debated in Congress? Is there any funding to address these issues? Are there massive organized protests calling for change?
The wage gap is smaller than the education gap, and in that case the answer to all these questions is "Yes".
There are some people working to bring attention to these issues, but they've had limited success and face quite a bit of opposition.
Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ...
by scarface74 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @12:18AM
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White males hold most positions in power in both government, industry, and religion - I'm not making a value judgement, just stating facts - the three most influential parts of society. Who are these powerful forces that are keeping them from rising up?
56% to 44% as of this past fall, and projected to reach 57% to 43% by 2026. [0] That's a little over 25%, not 50%.
> almost nobody sees a problem with that.
Lots of people see it as a symptom of a major problem.[0, again]
> Men vastly outnumber women among the homeless
This is, IIRC, basically entirely because virtually the entire set of homeless veterans is male, and homeless veterans are a full third of the homeless. Again, homeless among veterans (which, again, is basically the entire source of the overrepresentation of men among the homeless) is widely perceived as a serious problem.
> prisoners
Well, white people might not care about this; but the imprisonment of black men and what it has done to the black community has been an intense concern of that community.
[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/why-me...