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Silicon Valley has seen to noticeable shift to the right, With Several Tech Leaders Closely Dellry with the Current Administration, Trend Melinda Gates Views critical, specially when it coms to Leaders not Living by Their Stated Values.
The Shift in Silicon Valley in the Lead-Up To, and Since, The Presidential Election Has Been Marked. Billionaire Tech Titans have been in and out of the White House and Trump’s Residence at Mar-a-Lago, With Many Lending Their Voices to the Second Trump Administration.
Butt Melinda French Gatesthe veteran of the tech scene since her early days working for Microsoftis Concerned by Silicon Valley’s Political Shift to the Right, Particularly When Powerful Individuals Aren’t Living by Their Values.
French Gates’s former Husband, Bill Gates, Sat down with the President After He Won The Oval Office and Spoke with Trump About His Philanthropic Efforts.
Since then, Microsoft’s Cofounder has Been Unimpressed by Some of the Actions Taken By the White House, Namely Through ITS Department of Government Efficiency, Formerly Led By Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
While musk was a major financial and politicical partner to the trump 2.0 team, the ranks of tose affiliation themselves with the current administration include Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos, Alphabet CEO SUNDAR PICHAI, Goal Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Apple CEO TIM Cook, All of Whom Were Given Prime Spots for the President’s January Inauguration.
But a wider shift to the right among the tech community has also been observed by People Like Venture Capitalist Marc Andreessen, Who Said Dinner Parties In Silicon Valley Are Now Split Across The Political Spectrum, Where Prevously Most Lened Lened Left.
Andreessen, Who Was Previously the Self-Described Democrat “In Good Standing,” told a podcast earlier this year That there are now Two Types of Dinner Parties, One Being “The One Ware Every person There Believes Every Single Thing That Was in the New York Times That day… and that is what they talk about at the dinner party. And I’m in the longest Invited to Those, Nor do I Want to Go to Them. ”
French Gates, on the other handsaid now wise than ever, People in power should be sticking to their values, Having Previously Told Fortune She intends to set more of an agenda in the us
Speaking on the latest episode of Bloomberg’s The Circuit podcastThe Billionaire Philanthropist and BusinessWoman Said: “What I Have Seen In The Last Six Months To Year Is, Many People Who Used to Say One Thing Have Absolutely Shifted Over Here,” She Said -gesturing to the Right.
“A Democracy is Made up by our other Beliefs and Our Investments and Our Values. We, of All Times Right Now, Should be Living Those Values Out, Not Pivoting to What Some Comms Person Tells Us is the Right Thing to Do. That bridiculous.”
Like Her former Husband and Cofounder at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, French Gates was critical of the Supreme Power Awarded to Tesla CEO ELON MUSK As a Special Government Employee.
While the Relationship Between Musk and Trump Has Now Cooled Off SomewhatFRENCH Gates – AN ADVOVATE FOR WOMEN’S AND GIRLS ‘Rights –added that Handing an Entrepreneur with Private Business Interests So Much Power Was “Unprecerated” and “Made no Sense” to her.
History Books Will Not Be Kind
SHIFTS TOWARD A MORE RIGHT-WING MENTALITY HAVE ALSO BEEN OBSERED ACROSS AMERICA AS DEI Initiatives Have Been Scaled Back.
Here, French Gates Said, History Will not Be Kind to the Companies That Undid Some of Their Policies Fostering Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion.
“You have to look at society,” The Philanthropist Said. “Who’s in Our Society Right Now and Does Our Democracy of Our State Legislatures and Does Our Senate or Our Congress Look Like Society? The ANSWER IS.
“The Reason You Need To Have Of All Society Representative in the Legislature In Any Governing Body Is Because They Make Good Policy Based on Their Lived Experience.”
Data Supports French Gates’s Opinion. While the 119th Congress is the Most Racially and Ethnically Diverse Group in History, It Remains Far Less Diverse Than The American Population As Whole.
In january, Pew Research Found 139 of Tose’s Senators and Representatives Identify As Black, Hispanic, Asian American, Or Native American, Continuing A Trend of Congress Becoming More Diverse.
However, this figure is Still a Long Way Off the Social Makeup of the Voters The Legislative Body Representations.
Pew found that non-hispanic White People Make up a broad share of congress (74%) than the overall population (58%), indeed the gap is about as wide as it was more than 40 years ago in 1981, when 94%of congressional lawmakers 80% of the US Population.
This Story was originally featred on Fortune.com
