Lawsuit: Apple paid women less than men, rewarded men in perf evals for teamwork & leadership but penalized women. Apple also compensated individuals who have 'talent' more highly but more often rewarded male talent while female talent went unacknowledged.https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/apple-deliberately-pays-women-less-than-men-lawsuit-says/
What always makes me shake my head in disbelief about things like this is that, as a trillion-dollar company, they can easily afford to behave ethically and pay everyone properly and avoid lawsuits and bad PR and still be a trillion-dollar company. And yet…
@Mikal @amydiehl I mean, it’s pretty easy to square that rectangle that the company currently winning capitalism got and stays there by not paying all that it owes and prioritizing profits over the chance of catching some (relatively) minor PR issues/legal fees.
What’s important is that if it were purely economics in charge, the women whose work produces more capital would succeed the men producing less. But it’s not because its behooves men to maintain their power.
Yeah, I was implying as much. Patriarchy is a helluva drug.
@WhiteCatTamer @amydiehl
Oh, not at all. I was just being vague.
@Mikal @amydiehl If they’d been ethical, they would never have allowed themselves to become a trillion-dollar company. The kind of culture you need to become a trillion-dollar company is the kind of culture where shit like this happens. It’s like looking at the monarchy and asking “why are they decadent?” Because monarchy is inherently decadent. Similarly, trillion-dollar corporations are inherently unequal, unjust, unethical and patriarchal.
Sure, I mean, I get it. You don't become a billionaire without fucking over a lot of people. But once you are in this position, having a solid DEI program, respecting workers rights, treating people with respect and so on would not jeopardize your position in any way. It just shows how deeply entrenched white male supremacy is in these people. SMFH
@amydiehl
Guess what? It isn’t just Apple
Maybe you ought to believe what the women in your lives tell you all!!!
@amydiehl
@amydiehl frame it like its a individual problem and not systemic
@amydiehl but women will still buy their shitty iPhones anyway
@amydiehl Is anyone surprised????
@amydiehl No one could have predicted.....
They're not green
There not progressive
The only thing they are is a fashion company with just as many ethics as one.