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A friend of mine makes a great point about this:

Regardless of the reasons for the differential, tech has so much impact on society - think about the cultural impact of video games just as one vector - it is meaningfully problematic if a non representative slice of society creates almost all of it.

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> it is meaningfully problematic if a non representative slice of society creates almost all of it

this can take you down some socially controversial paths. if you apply the same judgements to other identity groups who dominate other extremely influential sectors, you are going to run into serious trouble.

You mean like mentioning that Facebook and Google are owned/led by minorities? Or?

Antisemites complaining about how Jews control Hollywood, the banking system, have 22% of nobel prizes while only being 0.2% of world population etc.

I really don't understand why that would be. In fact, given that most people are not software developers, we can be sure that the people making those high impact things are very non-representative of the population. Moreover, people can provide good services and understand others' problems without having to experience them themselves. Otherwise we wouldn't have male gynecologists for example. Sometimes, the distance is useful or even preferred.

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