Monday, May 21, 2018

How Does It Go? “Put Your Money Where…”

All these Silicon Valley tech companies say they are LGBT friendly; Amazon refused to locate HQ2 in North Carolina because of the state’s bigotry against LGBT but Apple may not have any qualms about locating there.
Gay-friendly Apple weighs North Carolina despite LGBT laws
Orlando Sentinel
By Emery P. Dalesio Associated Press
May 20,  2018

Gay-rights advocates are divided on whether to cheer or bemoan a potential marriage between the state of North Carolina and one of the global corporations most friendly to LGBT workers and causes.

Feelings remain raw over North Carolina's so-called bathroom bill, which prompted a boycott campaign. Many advocates remain frustrated that a legislative compromise that put an end to the controversy still allows discrimination against them.

Apple Inc. is close to deciding whether to build a planned corporate hub in the Raleigh-Durham area, a North Carolina government official and an economic development official told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of confidentiality promises surrounding business recruitment.
Well I don't have doubts that Apple is selling us out for their bottom line.

Greed wins out over morals.

Amazon refused to locate in North Carolina saying that they want to locate where all their employees are welcome but it seems like that Apple is willing to disenfranchise their LGBT employees. I know that I wouldn’t want to live in a state that wants to criminalize me.

I am old enough to remember when companies had a conscious, when they had a link to the community, and when the salaries of CEOs were only fifties times their average employee salaries instead of 500 times their average employee salaries, but that all changed in the eighties when greed took over where everything was the bottom line.

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