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Re:For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Ha... by cscurmudgeon on Friday April 07, 2023 @11:05AM (#35482299)
Yep, would love to see a comparison to journalism internships at places like NYT.
Re:For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Ha... by kerkeslager on Friday April 07, 2023 @11:14AM (#35482425)
Just because the NYT does the wrong thing, doesn't make it right for us to do.

Stop pointing the finger at other people and take responsibility for your own actions.

Re:For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Ha... by cscurmudgeon on Friday April 07, 2023 @02:19PM (#35484966)
The NYT started pointing fingers and not taking actions.

Please stop the easy moralizing.

Re:For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Ha... by kerkeslager on Friday April 07, 2023 @02:43PM (#35485322)
"They started it"? That's your defense? What grade are we in?

Believe it or not, both you and the New York Times can both be doing the wrong thing.

Re:For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Ha... by cscurmudgeon on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:02PM (#35488226)
> What grade are we in?

Wait, if you can't argue logically or decently, just say so. It is understandable to get angry when confronted with logic.

> Believe it or not, both you and the New York Times can both be doing the wrong thing.

I am not the king of Tech.

Here let me spell it out in an easy-to-digest manner:

If in other privileged industries rate of hiring poor folks is lower than that of tech, tech is actually doing good and not wrong. Is that clear?

You assume tech is in the wrong automatically without rationally analyzing it. The way to rationally analyze it is to compare with other rich industries.

Once again, we should stop moral aggrandizing and argue scientifically.

Re:For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Ha... by kerkeslager on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:50PM (#35489180)
Excuse me, I did misunderstand you. Let's try this again:

"What they are doing is worse"? That's your defense? What grade are we in?

Believe it or not, the New York Times can both be doing something worse than you, and you can still be doing the wrong thing.

The goal here is "treat people fairly" not "treat people less unfairly than somebody else so you can feel superior".

> I am not the king of Tech.

Just the defender of Tech.

Re:For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Ha... by ericmay on Friday April 07, 2023 @11:06AM (#35482320)
What do you hypothesize that this would uncover?
Re:For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Ha... by cscurmudgeon on Friday April 07, 2023 @02:19PM (#35484975)
If this is a tech specific issue.m

It is also a logical and scientific question to ask and NYT should support that.

Re:For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Ha... by ericmay on Friday April 07, 2023 @03:20PM (#35485867)
> It is also a logical and scientific question to ask and NYT should support that.

Do they not support asking this question?

> If this is a tech specific issue

Are you saying it’s an issue across all industries? Or?

Re:For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Ha... by cscurmudgeon on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:09PM (#35488287)
> Do they not support asking this question?

Who tf knows? Have they published an article on it?

> Are you saying it’s an issue across all industries? Or?

I am not saying anything about that. All I am saying is this:

For a fair and logical/scientific comparison, the article should have included other rich and powerful industries that folks want to work in, but I guess NYT doesn't believe in fairness.