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California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law today that requires major companies with headquarters in California — including many household-name tech firms — to have at least one woman on their boards by next year, and depending on the size of the board, up to three women by 2021.
The law is the first of its kind in the U.S., and proponents say it's needed to equalize the representation of women in corporate boardroom. Currently, a quarter of California's publicly traded companies do not have a woman on their boards. Companies that fail to comply with the new rule face fines of $100,000 for a first violation and $300,000 for a second or subsequent violation.
The law already faces opposition from business groups, which could challenge the basis of preferential hiring toward women. In signing the bill, Gov. Brown acknowledged the bill's "potential flaws" that could prove "fatal" to implementation, but nevertheless supported its passing, citing "recent events in Washington, D.C. — and beyond — make it crystal clear that many are not getting the message" around gender equality.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @07:15PM (9 children)
You're moving the goal-posts now.
You've just admitted that it's true. "Straight White Men" are the wrong target for your anger.
Anyway, I disagree with your analysis that rich men are the problem; my reading of history is that rich men have done the most to pull the rest of you out of the dregs. Not only is this true of the Aristocrats, but it's 100x true of the Capitalists.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday October 03 2018, @07:27PM (8 children)
On the contrary, dear friend, it's not moving the goalposts at ALL. It's pointing out the roots of what is called "the patriarchy" are as much or more based on class than on sex or gender. Your "reading of history" is also beside the point: nothing says wealth accumulation has to help everyone, and we find that it doesn't, actually; a rising tide lifts all boats, but if you don't have a boat, you'll just be left behind and drown.
It's those same leftists you'll shit all over who got you the 40 hour workweek, unemployment benefits, OSHA, child labor laws, Social Security, etc., and you are cheering on the destruction of these very things that allow life to be better than hellish for the working and middle classes. These things had to be forcibly taken from the Aristocrats and Capitalists, as you insist on spelling it. Look at the mid to late 19th century industrialization in the US and England to see what happens without these protections.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @07:34PM (6 children)
Those "benefits" are only possible because Capitalist made society so fucking wealthy that they could finally afford to even entertain those ideas.
And, you know what? The rich work more than 40 hours a week, and child labor laws have resulted in young adults who are almost indistinguishable from children.
It's crazy. You're blind both to the foundations of modern society and also to the unintended consequences of do-gooders.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday October 03 2018, @11:11PM (5 children)
You're telling me that eight-year-olds getting abused and maimed in factories is good for society? Go to Hell. Seriously, go to Hell, and reincarnate in Pakistan somewhere as a kid working in a garment factory. There's your "good for society."
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @12:54AM (3 children)
Besides, why do you blame the factory owners who are providing a job for a poor family, rather than the dubmfuck poor people who just won't quit making more of themselves?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday October 04 2018, @04:18AM (2 children)
Tell you what, how about I pay you $5 an hour to rip you open and play Stairway to Heaven on your intestines (after, of course, stretching them to the appropriate tension on a rack of some sort). Sound like a good deal? If not, why not? Extrapolate this to "jobs" where people are maimed, poisoned, outright killed, or just slowly ground down to nothing and then thrown away like a used tissue, and you may see where I'm coming from.
Or you may not, in which case the only future for you is reincarnation in several of those jobs. I'm warning you now, karma is an even bigger bitch than me.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @09:22AM (1 child)
This has been tested a few times now. Are people better off being oppressed and slowly killed by factory work, or not?
The answer is: Yes, they are.
There are other ways. Better ways. Sadly, in today's world, those ways are not viable or used. They tend to be more expensive.
There have been a number of cases recently where a factories have collapsed. Yet another 'oppress the poor with poorly paid factory jobs'. Hundreds have been killed. Thousands put out of work. Where do they go? Back to the villages they came from? To other jobs?
It sucks. It really does. It is awful. Britain had the industrial revolution. America went through the same. Industry builds up, improves, wages rise, conditions improve, and another country starts to bootstrap itself out of agriculture into industry. The world turns.
Yes, have a bleeding heart. No, we can't change the world or save everyone today.
We can only hope that tomorrow is just like today, perhaps a little better.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday October 04 2018, @03:57PM
You have such clouded, incomplete vision. I will grant you that, maybe, and this is ONLY a maybe, that sort of industrialized horror is necessary *once* in *one* place in the globe, and this is due more to ignorance about alternatives due to simply not having them in one's worldview than any hard laws of physics. Once it's been seen, it should never happen again, doubly so in a world with today's technology.
Once one place managed to hit post-scarcity regarding water and power, there is no excuse, ever, for that kind of industrial Hell on earth to exist. I'm trying to be charitable here and assume you simply lack imagination and vision, but a dark part of me suspects you want people--so long as they're not you--to suffer like that for some reason.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @02:27AM
Little girls should be married to men: see: laws of YHWH.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @10:47PM
This is true. The Greek "patriá" meant tribe or family, patriarch simply means head of the group. The male head of the household was called "kyrios". Nobody tell the lunatics over here [sjwiki.org] they got this as backwards as the rest of their nonsensical, pseudo-religious ideology.