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When Apple finishes its new $5 billion headquarters in Cupertino, California, the technorati will ooh and ahh over its otherworldly architecture, patting themselves on the back for yet another example of "innovation." Countless employees, tech bloggers, and design fanatics are already lauding the "futuristic" building and its many "groundbreaking" features. But few are aware that Apple's monumental project is already outdated, mimicking a half-century of stagnant suburban corporate campuses that isolated themselves—by design—from the communities their products were supposed to impact.
In the 1940s and '50s, when American corporations first flirted with a move to the 'burbs, CEOs realized that horizontal architecture immersed in a park-like buffer lent big business a sheen of wholesome goodness. The exodus was triggered, in part, by inroads the labor movement was making among blue-collar employees in cities. At the same time, the increasing diversity of urban populations meant it was getting harder and harder to maintain an all-white workforce. One by one, major companies headed out of town for greener pastures, luring desired employees into their gilded cages with the types of office perks familiar to any Googler.
Rockstar coders don't do suburbs?
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday October 21 2016, @04:19PM
The authors averaged the wealth of everyone in each state. "If Bill Gates walks into a bar, on average, everybody in the bar is a millionaire. [wordpress.com]" They use skin colour as a proxy for race and, judging by the column heading in their table, "% black" as the measure of skin colour. So for their purposes, there are two races, black and non-black.
They write (emphasis added):
The present study supports Templer and Arikawa's (2006) finding that skin color is a human life history variable. In The global bell curve, Lynn (2008) showed that in many countries around the world, skin color is the basis of social stratification. In the US there is a racial hierarchy in which Europeans have the highest IQ and earnings and socio-economic status, Hispanics come next, while Blacks do least well. Lynn found similar racial hierarchies in Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Color stratified societies are sometimes referred to as “pigmentocracies” by anthropologists and sociologists and are explained mainly by the structural consequences of colonialism, discrimination, and prejudice. [...]
Millions of Africans were of course brought to America as slaves (after the natives proved unsuitable); then slavery was outlawed--except as punishment for a crime. The so-called "prison-industrial complex" is seen by some observers as the successor to more overt slavery.