Re:What diversity and inclusion means at Microsoft
by afarrell on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @03:19PM
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One goal of this is maintaining social cohesion between groups of people who can be immediately distinguished in combat. The visible existence of middle-class and upper-class Black families presents a lower-middle-class black teenager (or any teenager) with a choice:
A. Spend a lot of time and effort growing into someone with the skills and social access to be a part of one of those middle-class (or with luck upper-class) families.
B. Spend a moderate amount of time and effort maintaining a position in the lower-middle-class.
C. Spend a small amount of time and effort to fall into the lumpenproletariat.
D. Spend an enormous amount of time and effort to gather a group of conscientious and industrious peers to form a new militant group which seeks to take power, trusting them to be rational enough to act effectively and loyal enough not to betray your cause.
E. Join an established militant group.
Why does Microsoft care? Microsoft wants to sell services to various governments, who want to maintain monopsony power on recruiting those who choose path E.
A. Spend a lot of time and effort growing into someone with the skills and social access to be a part of one of those middle-class (or with luck upper-class) families.
B. Spend a moderate amount of time and effort maintaining a position in the lower-middle-class.
C. Spend a small amount of time and effort to fall into the lumpenproletariat.
D. Spend an enormous amount of time and effort to gather a group of conscientious and industrious peers to form a new militant group which seeks to take power, trusting them to be rational enough to act effectively and loyal enough not to betray your cause.
E. Join an established militant group.
Why does Microsoft care? Microsoft wants to sell services to various governments, who want to maintain monopsony power on recruiting those who choose path E.