Welcome to Equality- 2.0. This app uses a complex algorithm, Affirmative Fractions, to split your dinner bills. Our built in diversity tracker also lets you see how down you are! Are you really about ending the wage gap? Cheque your privilege. Hate equity? There's something for you too! Protest the app within the app.
This app won Comedy Hack Day SF earlier this year, and the demo totally blew me away. It splits your dinner bill based on data from the US Department of Labor--so, REALLY fairly, based on how much you make. You make a simple race and gender profile, and it takes into account how many cents on the dollar you actually earn. As TechCrunch noted, "If someone in the group isn’t down with the cost breakdown, the app makes it possible to protest from a range of pre-populated excuses like, “I’m conventionally unattractive,” “I was a middle child,” “I’m aware of my privilege,” “I spent $400 on improv classes” and “this isn’t an issue anymore.”" http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/20...
Usually this would make for just a hilarious video (that too), but they actually MADE THIS app, and it's great!
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As a woman in tech, sometimes it feels like the cards are always stacked against me. Can't tell you how many times men have told me to change my attitude rather than fix their own habits formed as a result of the entrenched discrimination in our society. EquiTable helps them walk in my shoes in a small, tangible way by splitting the dinner bill according to their privilege - White and Asian men make more in America, so they pay more. The app is also hilarious, which helps the pill go down a little easier. You can protest the calculations, but your claims will fall on deaf ears - much like the true experience of women and underprivileged minorities who try to fix our broken system. In the end, even if you hate it, you can still tweet that you helped solve the wage gap. And how many apps can say that?
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One thing I'm not into, though, is the 2-dimensional M-F gender spectrum. I appreciate that there's not just a M/F option, but operating in that kind of framework isn't a whole lot better.
Also, I think that charging Asian men (which also combines South Asian and Southeast Asian men, which, from what I have read, seen and heard from friends, experience racism in different ways in the US) more simply based on larger mean income ignores the systematic oppression against these groups, especially economically in non-tech fields.
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