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On the contrary, there's not a lot of money to be made, and people constantly question it. Would-be spoilers get educated about their own unrealized bias, raci
by r0s 6y ago
On the contrary, there's not a lot of money to be made, and people constantly question it.
Would-be spoilers get educated about their own unrealized bias, racism continues to be a huge problem in this country, activists are vindicated and the world moves on.
- solveit 6y agoCan someone get me an actual number so I know what to think?
- scruple 6y agoEstimated at $8 billion dollars a year [0]. I found this book review [1] to be spot-on with my reading of the DiAngelo book, and this is also where I learned of the above estimate from the Washington Post. > As a business journalist, however, I’ve chronicled the slow progress people of color have made in the corporate world, even as companies spend, by one measure, more than $8 billion a year on diversity initiatives. [0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/despite-spending-billions-companies-cant-buy-diversity/2019/11/21/d8907b92-fb1a-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/despite-spending-bill... [1]: https://newrepublic.com/article/156032/diversity-training-isnt-enough-pamela-newkirk-robin-diangelo-book-reviews https://newrepublic.com/article/156032/diversity-training-is...
- newen 6y agoFor comparison, US film industry revenue is around $11 billion a year.
- runako 6y agoNitpick: the $11B is US domestic ticket sales only. The US film industry is much bigger than US domestic ticket sales, however. (International ticket sales, cable licensing, etc.) This is more or less obvious given that the top 10 grossing movies in 2019 took in ~ $13B in global ticket sales and < $2B of that went to non-US studios. (Also nuts is the percentages of 2019 global ticket sales attributable to the Avengers franchise and Disney.) In 2017 US film industry revenues were ~$43B according to https://deadline.com/2018/07/film-industry-revenue-2017-ibisworld-report-gloomy-box-office-1202425692/ https://deadline.com/2018/07/film-industry-revenue-2017-ibis...
- MacsHeadroom 6y agoThe executive coaching industry is $16B/year. (And the film industry is in the hundreds of billions. That's just ticket sales, which are a tiny fraction of revenue.)
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoi don't think we're at the diversity training incorporated stage yet, so while there may be a lot of money to be made and more to come currently I assume what is being made is a lot of very comfortable livings. That said while I haven't read the DiAngelo book the scenario I imagine for situations like this is generally not someone waking up and saying I will write something to get some money out of these people but rather I will write something about this situation, later getting offers of more and more money and then behaviorism takes control of the journey. It is difficult to get someone to change what they're doing once they start getting paid for doing it. This is of course all separate from whether I might agree with the book if I read it. I can still agree 100% with someone and think that their perspective is constrained by how they have begun to profit from it.
- greenhatglack 6y agoKeep in mind when people give you examples of industry numbers like games and movies when they compare it to something funded by workers income tax.
- greenhatglack 6y agoWhat would convince you otherwise? Like what would suffice in order to convince someone like you that massive sums are spent on this? Should be in relative terms to other aspects, like health care or should it be in absolute values?
- MacsHeadroom 6y agoRevenue isn't profit. The executive coaching industry is far bigger and it's not remotely a cash cow.
- greenhatglack 6y agoRevenue and profit implies business, I am talking pure funds transferred from taxes. What does that fall under?