A while back Google had to give a pay raise to white males because women whined about unfairness and they looked into it and found the women were overpaid.
The real problem is that it sounds like a good thing. See, this fixed unfairness even for white dudes!
And it might be a good thing if the available talent and real world was otherwise equal - but it's not. If 12% of software engineers were black and they were just as talented, there'd be no good reason not to have about 12% in a large company, but really it's more like 1% are qualified.
This is what they always do, they go backward from result to cause, picking racism/sexism always as the cause without proof or despite contrary evidence. Large companies have 1% black engineers is the result, the cause 'must be' racism when actually it's just that's how many qualified persons are available to hire.
Like how Trump said "you'll get paid as much if you do as good a job" (paraphrased I think), the focus of these campaigns needs to be shifted to "you need to hire as many X as are good at the job" or something like that that adds back the missing component of merit.
And there needs to be some catch phrase to mock it, like "trickle back equity" or something.
Their idea is that if you force companies to hire at demographic levels, then colleges will graduate that many to meet the demand, then high schools will teach AP computer science to that many, then that many will choose to study.
Every step of that is retarded. Large companies will just hire the unqualified, whether they have a degree or not, and have them work on bullshit. Colleges will just graduate any shmuck, high schools won't care about skill because colleges won't care, and the kids won't go into tech because instead of being a respected career they'd just be a joke to everybody else because 99% of them will be totally unqualified.
A while back Google had to give a pay raise to white males because women whined about unfairness and they looked into it and found the women were overpaid.
The real problem is that it sounds like a good thing. See, this fixed unfairness even for white dudes!
And it might be a good thing if the available talent and real world was otherwise equal - but it's not. If 12% of software engineers were black and they were just as talented, there'd be no good reason not to have about 12% in a large company, but really it's more like 1% are qualified.
This is what they always do, they go backward from result to cause, picking racism/sexism always as the cause without proof or despite contrary evidence. Large companies have 1% black engineers is the result, the cause 'must be' racism when actually it's just that's how many qualified persons are available to hire.
Like how Trump said "you'll get paid as much if you do as good a job" (paraphrased I think), the focus of these campaigns needs to be shifted to "you need to hire as many X as are good at the job" or something like that that adds back the missing component of merit.
And there needs to be some catch phrase to mock it, like "trickle back equity" or something.
Their idea is that if you force companies to hire at demographic levels, then colleges will graduate that many to meet the demand, then high schools will teach AP computer science to that many, then that many will choose to study.
Every step of that is retarded. Large companies will just hire the unqualified, whether they have a degree or not, and have them work on bullshit. Colleges will just graduate any shmuck, high schools won't care about skill because colleges won't care, and the kids won't go into tech because instead of being a respected career they'd just be a joke to everybody else because 99% of them will be totally unqualified.