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Your “genius quants (aka insider trading)” quote is an easy target, but instead I’m going to respond to this: > That is a typically upper middle class white wi

by dsacco 9y ago

Your “genius quants (aka insider trading)” quote is an easy target, but instead I’m going to respond to this: > That is a typically upper middle class white with a BS/BA in econ/finance/cs/communications who got "really drunk" in college, "loves" IPAs now and does sober February's as a challenge. These are all various shades of yuppie identity non-diverse in thought, culture, or world perspective. They are boring. Speaking as someone who is a software engineer in NY, your broad generalization has not been my experience, nor does it apply to me. Moreover, I consider it pretty dismissive to reduce such a wide swath of people to the stereotypical yuppie. According to you, software engineers are homogenous and boring. If you really can’t find more diversity in the conversations you’re having, I strongly encourage you to seek out more diverse people. To put this politely: the lack of self awareness you’re evidencing in this comment borders on hubris.

sinker 9y ago
You're missing the point. He meant that the differences you see (what you call diversity) are superficial differences. When you look deeper past these differences (job, skin color, neighborhood, etc) you find that people in NY, professionals at least, are actually very similar. I don't agree 100% with this sentiment, but I doubt the OP does either. What I agree with is that "diverse" has become a stupid word. Diverse is used nowadays to indicate only superficial differences. If you see a black man, a lesbian, a asian woman, and a hispanic girl together in the same office, you have diversity. Yet they're all in the same office, have the same standard of education, are just about the same age, probably have the same political affiliations, grew up in roughly the same geographic area, etc. Is it really diverse? Culturally, not so much. But NY is not so different from any other place. People near each other tend to be similar. I just wish we would stop regurgitating the word "diverse."

by dsacco 9y ago

sinker 9y ago

You're missing the point. He meant that the differences you see (what you call diversity) are superficial differences. When you look deeper past these differences (job, skin color, neighborhood, etc) you find that people in NY, professionals at least, are actually very similar. I don't agree 100% with this sentiment, but I doubt the OP does either. What I agree with is that "diverse" has become a stupid word. Diverse is used nowadays to indicate only superficial differences. If you see a black man, a lesbian, a asian woman, and a hispanic girl together in the same office, you have diversity. Yet they're all in the same office, have the same standard of education, are just about the same age, probably have the same political affiliations, grew up in roughly the same geographic area, etc. Is it really diverse? Culturally, not so much. But NY is not so different from any other place. People near each other tend to be similar. I just wish we would stop regurgitating the word "diverse."