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"We’re going to continue to reach out to the Black community, the Hispanic community, the LGBT community, the veterans community."
“It’s good for business; it’s morally right; we’re quite good at it; we’re successful,”
- Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Go fash, lose cash.
But... Jamie Dimon likes cash.
So he's like, "Nah. Y'all have fun tho!"
He's not doing this because he loves Black people. I doubt he has a favorite Kendrick Lamar song.
He's doing this because this way makes more money than the other way.
If you're the richest person in the world? Then sure, you can afford to drop Mackenzie Scott money being anti-social.
Everyone else should ask themselves if they can really afford to lose money by backing segregation.
And you will lose money.
@mekkaokereke I did my yearly compliance training at my company a few weeks ago.
In the DEI module, they cited a study showing that strong DEI programs lead to a 19% increase in revenue. They go on to say any other initiative that resulted in a fraction as much additional revenue would be a no brainer to adopt so DEI is even more so, basically end of discussion.
It might be nice to see a moral stand there, but the fiscal one is hard for anyone to argue against.
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.ioMy evergreen advice to Accessibility teams in tech 
struggling to get their features prioritized, is to wrap every accessibility feature that they deliver in experiment flags, and measure revenue of that cohort of experiments against a holdback. If you are not already doing this, I promise you, you will be shocked.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109781392864632657
Do I love accessibility because I'm a tender hearted DEI zealot? Or because I only care about making money charts go up and to the right? You decide! Either way we're fixing stuff.
@mekkaokereke @thadd we would if we had contributors to