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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: onepoorguy 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: God what idiots
Date: 07/13/24 1:02 PM
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I hate to break it to you, but the chip industry already is replete with non-whites. At my company there were a LOT of Indians (sub-continent, not native Americans). There were also a lot of Asians. A lot of them on H1B visas.

I would say blacks and women were underrepresented, but when you look at the schools you can see why. Blacks and women are underrepresented in engineering programs. Don't know why, but it's a fact. As a physics grad, there were a core group of us that had to take the same classes. Maybe 10-12. Two of them were women, and both were non-American women (one was Indian, the other Dutch). None were black (male or female).

You can't recruit what isn't available. There is a dearth of black and female engineers because -for whatever reason- don't go into hard science or engineering fields.

Also, from what I've read, most of the critics are complaining that there wasn't much in the way of workforce (and minority) development (i.e. encouraging entry into STEM fields). Which goes back to what I was saying about minorities in schools...if they don't enter STEM, there aren't any to recruit.
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