{"id":76943,"date":"2015-10-14T16:34:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T00:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76943"},"modified":"2015-10-14T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T00:35:04","slug":"steve-sailer-steve-jobs-nature-nurture-and-apricot-orchards-in-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76943","title":{"rendered":"Steve Sailer: Steve Jobs: Nature, Nurture, And Apricot Orchards In Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes in 2012<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Slugger Yogi Berra<\/a> liked to say, “You can observe a lot by watching.”<\/a> And you can observe a lot about what modern Americans actually value just by watching their heroes.<\/p>\n

Nobody in recent memory earned more lavish obituaries than Steve Jobs,<\/a> cofounder of Apple Inc. He was immediately beatified as a secular saint following his death on October 5th of cancer at age 56.<\/p>\n

A middle-class white Baby Boomer, a child of the Sixties, Jobs vastly appealed to the middle-class white Baby Boomers who still dominate culturally<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, I realize we Baby Boomers are insufferable. But you are going to miss us when we are gone. The \u201cdiverse\u201d America of the future<\/a> is going to be a lot less interesting.<\/p>\n

For example, in an upcoming CNN documentary Black in America<\/em>,<\/a> scheduled to air November 13, Soledad O`Brien<\/a> exposes the scandal<\/a> that few blacks have been allowed to found their own successful high tech firms.<\/p>\n

Blogger Michael Arrington has gotten himself in lots of trouble<\/a> for admitting<\/a> in an interview with O`Brien that he doesn`t think this is caused by discrimination. Vivek Wadwha<\/a> and Anil Dash piled on Arrington<\/a>. (Of course, nobody mentioned the similar lack of Mexican-Americans in Silicon Valley.)<\/p>\n

Ironically, in his new authorized but frank and judicious biography, Steve Jobs<\/a><\/em>, Walter Isaacson lets slip this about the seven executives of the hugely successful new management team that Jobs built at Apple in the last decade:<\/p>\n

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“Even though there was a surface sameness to his top team\u2014all were middle-aged white males\u2014there was a range of styles.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, it`s hardly a surprise, at least to VDARE.com readers, that Apple under Jobs didn`t employ many blacks or Hispanics in high-level positions. What`s more intriguing is that East Asian or South Asian names are also rare throughout the 630 pages of Steve Jobs<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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