Apple, Costco stand behind DEI programs
Apple, Costco stand behind DEI programs
Both companies' directors are encouraging shareholders to vote against resolutions asking them to reconsider DEI initiatives.
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Tim Cook is really playing both sides of the fence here.
The real fence is capital vs labor, and he doesn’t play both sides of that one
I mean, he did give a generous "personal donation" to the Trump inauguration.
He was going to give it to whoever won. Of course he wants to be on the good side of those in power. It's not about the president, it's about Tim Cook.
He wasn't going to give a million dollars to Harris.
Really? Because he didn’t the last time.
It's about him being a dipshit.
If you are in charge of a company whose market cap is larger than most nations’ GDP, you have to engage in diplomacy. Sometimes that’s blatant and overt corruption.
Maybe his interpretation of DEI would be more H1Bs from India?
He always has.
If I recall he said they were going to remove it and the board said no
IIRC it was a bunch of shareholders who demanded removal.
Oh ok maybe I'm misremembering
Citation needed.
Most also did. Techbros back them mostly used to be rright-libertarian, they just pivoted more and more to republicans once non-right leaning people showed an extreme distaste for GenAI.