In today’s “Deep Dive”:
What's the upside and downside for the world of tech and the business of innovation when labor groups band together to demand change? Is it growth and prosperity or red tape and bureaucracy?
And in our “Courage or Cringe segment”: Monday Night Football, Coinbase and Kamela Harris.
· Are former NFL players turned commentators fonts of prophetic wisdom and meant to be respected, or are they out of touch talking heads who detract rather than edify?
· Is diversity and inclusion a PR effort for silicon-based tech companies, or are they actually practicing what they preach?
· Are our VP-Elect’s recent comments about her childhood, which are eerily reminiscent of MLK’s, an example of harmless coincidence or cynical plagiarism?
Deep Dive:
Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/technology/google-employees-union.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/technology/google-employees-union.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage)
Courage or Cringe:
ESPN's Booger McFarland takes 'African American' NFL players to task amid Dwayne Haskins saga
https://sports.yahoo.com/esp-ns-booger-mc-farland-takes-african-american-nfl-players-to-task-amid-dwayne-haskins-saga-064534765.html (https://sports.yahoo.com/esp-ns-booger-mc-farland-takes-african-american-nfl-players-to-task-amid-dwayne-haskins-saga-064534765.html)
Cryptocurrency Start-Up Underpaid Women and Black Employees, Data Showshttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/technology/coinbase-pay-employees.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/technology/coinbase-pay-employees.html)
Kamala Harris repeatedly told 'fweedom' story now facing plagiarism accusationshttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-fweedom-stroller-story-plagiarism-mlk (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-fweedom-stroller-story-plagiarism-mlk)
Lastly, the memes...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9114903/Kamala-Harris-roasted-plagiarizing-MLK-anecdote-fweedom.html
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