MICROSOFT CEO Satya Nadella is a clueless man. He had the naiveté to suggest to a gathering of women in computing that hard work matters most in connection with earnings.

It’s not really about asking for the raise,” Nadella said, “but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along,” according to a transcript of the event provided by Microsoft.

In the long term, Mr. Nadella said, good workers will be rewarded and recognized for their efforts.

This is offensive to The Powers That Be, and Nadella was quickly beat up on social media. His statement implies that women are not victims — whether of male prejudice or of what Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg of Lean In fame says is their own failure to ask for more money. Fortunately, Nadella has apologized and gotten back on script by promising to close the pay gap, admitting to male bias against women in a typical expression of opportunistic male self-hatred.

By the way, readers have probably often seen the figures on how little women make relative to men. Statistics on how much of total family income men provide are rarely reported. Among married fathers, men still make about 65 percent of household income and spend more than 50 percent more hours in paid employment than married mothers. Men don’t have the choice, as women so often do, to take lesser paying work or part-time jobs.

The pay gap is another one of those issues in which there is open deception. Male deference used to entail defending and protecting women. Now it demands coddling them with lies.

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Josh F. writes:

I believe there is something much more sinister involved and what we read here is something I call symbiotic regression. Just look at that CEO? I see complicity. I see a person who is asking a question (shouldn’t one have “faith” in the capitalist idea) IN ORDER TO get a resounding “no” answer from the usual shriekers. We operate within an anti-Capitalist economic system (which resides underneath and in full “harmony” with an anti-white Supremacist paradigm) where there is decreasing faith in the idea that capital flows to the most credible people/investment. In fact, our economic system virtually prides itself on the very destructive notion that one can infuse capital in the least worthy people/investments AND STILL somehow come out ahead in the “progression” of things. This CEO knows darn well that the essence of Capitalism amongst international corporate juggernauts is a sick farce and no one should have faith that one’s hard work and productivity will be appropriately compensated by said corporations. So this is theatre meant to draw “us” towards one wrong side (no faith) or the other wrong side (stupid blind “faith”).

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