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Yea, I think most silicon valley employees would be shocked if they found how many members of the House and Senate had been 100 ft away in a secretish meeting at their company.
Also to put this in perspective, these secretish meetings occur at every important financial sector of commerce. We have a real corruption problem in our government.
No you're just wrong.
Corporations are made up of people, but they are not people and do not act as individuals.
Also yes conversations like "Well, our sales are slipping – how can we boost our image? Let's have a developer event for women" actually do happen all the time and it doesn't have to be women, it can be anything to help get PR like holidays or awareness months.
These programs are to help wealthy family's get their relatives in, with some plausible deniability by allowing a token lower class woman.
It was never for the lower classes, so don't feel too bad.
Apple and honestly most corporations doesn't care either.
This is a pr move to help with their image as their sales and public relations are on a downward slide (and microsoft is on the upward swing).
I'm not saying anything about this program in moral way.But I dislike the idea that's corporations are benevolent. Apple could do more for everyone if they paid their fair share of taxes.