Lucky You

Nov 2019 @sandimetz Lucky You

@sandimetz Nov 2019 You

@sandimetz Nov 2019 You Lucky?

@sandimetz Nov 2019 https://youtu.be/GZPXtfXOC_A

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Pay Attention

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Be Open

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Expect to be Lucky

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Assume You Were

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Pay Attention Be Open Expect to be
Lucky Assume You Were

@sandimetz Nov 2019 You Can Make Your Own Luck

@sandimetz Nov 2019

@sandimetz Nov 2019 2017 US Bureau of Labor and Statistics
Computer Programmer-ish Jobs

2.3 million Computer Programmer-ish Jobs

@sandimetz Nov 2019 2017 Median Annual Wage Programmers $85,000

@sandimetz Nov 2019 2018 Median Annual Wage Programmers $93,000

@sandimetz Nov 2019 2018 Median Annual Wage Programmers Everyone Else
$31,000 $93,000

Gender Computer Programmer-ish Jobs

@sandimetz Nov 2019 2017 Computer Programmer-ish Jobs All 2,313,452

@sandimetz Nov 2019 2017 Computer Programmer-ish Jobs Male Female 598,449
1,715,003

@sandimetz Nov 2019 2017 Computer Programmer-ish Jobs Male Female Non-Binary
9,022 596,115 1,708,314

@sandimetz Nov 2019 2017 Computer Programmer-ish Jobs 25% 50% 75%
100% Male Female Non-binary 0.4% 25.8% 73.8%

@sandimetz Nov 2019 2019 RubyConf 25% 50% 75% 100% Male
Female Non-binary 1.5% 21.3% 77.2%

@sandimetz Nov 2019 2019 Career Explorer Ethnicity Computer Programmers

@sandimetz Nov 2019

@sandimetz Nov 2019 2019 Computer Programmer Ethnicity 0% 15% 30%
45% 60% White Asian Other Latinx Black Arab Paciﬁc...

@sandimetz Nov 2019 2019 Computer Programmer Ethnicity 0% 15% 30%
45% 60% White Asian Other Latinx Black Arab Paciﬁc... 1% 3% 6% 8% 9% 24% 49%

Income Computer Programmer-ish Jobs

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 2017 Computer Programmer-ish Jobs Median Income Male
Female

Female $87,887

Female $79,253 $87,887

Female 90.18% 100.00%

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Income x Gender / Ethnicity

@sandimetz Nov 2019

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Percent of Total Earnings 20% 40% 60%
80% Men Women

80% Men Women 76.1%

80% Men Women 76.1% 23.9%

80% Men Women White Asian Latinx Black Other 37.2% 11.7%

80% Men Women White Asian Latinx Black Other 55.5% 23.9%

80% Men Women White Asian Latinx Black Other 55.5% 23.9% Winners?

@sandimetz Nov 2019 You Arrived with Your Demographic

@sandimetz Nov 2019 You Arrived with Your Demographic (mostly)

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Your Neighborhood

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Your Neighborhood Your destiny?

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Raj Chetty https://i.ytimg.com/vi/u2U9-Wq2ub0/maxresdefault.jpg

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 Watts

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 Compton

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 44%

@sandimetz Nov 2019 44% 6.2%

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under CC BY-NC-ND

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 "Whispering Boys" by JenX 67 https://ﬂickr.com/photos/jenx67/7260454644 is
licensed under CC BY-NC-ND

@sandimetz Nov 2019 "boy" by bartheq https://ﬂickr.com/photos/bartheq/228976036 is licensed under
CC BY-NC

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Your Neighborhood

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Your Neighborhood Choose Wisely

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Google, "Streetview," digital images, Google Maps (http://maps.google.com),
photograph of 8 Randolph Dr, Parkersburg, WV taken May 2012

@sandimetz Nov 2019 My bedroom window Google, "Streetview," digital images,
Google Maps (http://maps.google.com), photograph of 8 Randolph Dr, Parkersburg, WV taken May 2012

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 I grew up here

@sandimetz Nov 2019 The U.S.

@sandimetz Nov 2019 The U.S. Housing

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Buy a home, build wealth

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Percentage of families owning homes in 2016
White Latino Black 44% 45% 72%

@sandimetz Nov 2019 "Plowing with Mules" by jwinfred https://ﬂickr.com/photos/jimmysmith/135586643 is
licensed under CC BY-NC-ND

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Redlining

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 Home Owners Loan Corp (HOLC) 1937

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 A2

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 D6

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 2019 Durham Income 1937 HOLC "grading" zones

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Lower-middle Middle-upper A. Best 15% 85% 2019
Durham Income 1937 HOLC "grading" zones

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Lower-middle Middle-upper A. Best 15% 85% B.
Desireable 30% 70% 2019 Durham Income 1937 HOLC "grading" zones

Desireable 30% 70% C. Declining 61% 39% 2019 Durham Income 1937 HOLC "grading" zones

Desireable 30% 70% C. Declining 61% 39% D. Hazardous 100% 0% 2019 Durham Income 1937 HOLC "grading" zones

@sandimetz Nov 2019 2019 Durham Race 1937 HOLC "grading" zones

@sandimetz Nov 2019 White “Minority” A. Best 85% 15% 2019
Durham Race 1937 HOLC "grading" zones

@sandimetz Nov 2019 White “Minority” A. Best 85% 15% B.
Desireable 72% 28% 2019 Durham Race 1937 HOLC "grading" zones

Desireable 72% 28% C. Declining 34% 66% 2019 Durham Race 1937 HOLC "grading" zones

Desireable 72% 28% C. Declining 34% 66% D. Hazardous 0% 100% 2019 Durham Race 1937 HOLC "grading" zones

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 The U.S.

@sandimetz Nov 2019 The U.S. My Houses

@sandimetz Nov 2019 1980 1 Google, "Streetview," digital images, Google
Maps (http://maps.google.com), photograph of 3225 Aﬃrmed Court, Tallahassee, Fl taken May 2011

Maps (http://maps.google.com), photograph of 1510 Hilltop Dr, Tallahassee, Fl taken April 2013

Maps (http://maps.google.com), photograph of 302 Monmouth Ave, Durham, NC take Aug 2014

Maps (http://maps.google.com), photograph of 181 Hall Ave, Grand Junction, CO, taken Jul 2012

Maps (http://maps.google.com), photograph of 5616 Welkin Ct, Durham, NC taken Feb 2016

Maps (http://maps.google.com), photograph of 150 Solterra Way, Durham, NC taken Aug 2007

@sandimetz Nov 2019 6 2005

@sandimetz Nov 2019 6 2007

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 The U.S. Opportunity For All ?

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 Neoliberalism

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Neoliberalism a modiﬁed form of liberalism tending
to favor free-market capitalism

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Carter Reagan Clinton

@sandimetz Nov 2019 US Department of Labor [CC BY 2.0
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]

@sandimetz Nov 2019 School Funding

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 Minimum Wage

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 Last time I made minimum wage

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Last time I made minimum wage $10.80
today's $

today's $ $12.15 my living wage

today's $ $12.15 my living wage $ 7.25 current MW

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Health Care

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 US Average 8.9%

@sandimetz Nov 2019 US Average 8.9% 66.5% of all bankruptcies
are tied to medical issues

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Student Loan Debt

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 The U.S. Opportunity

@sandimetz Nov 2019 The U.S. For Some Opportunity

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Winners

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Winners ?

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 "" by stweedy https://ﬂickr.com/photos/tweedyson/7977703357 is licensed under
CC BY-NC-ND

@sandimetz Nov 2019 "Mr Fox surprises the chicken" by Larry
and Laura https://ﬂickr.com/photos/lcummings/4406682302 is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND

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@sandimetz Nov 2019 What you refuse to resist makes you
just as complicit as what you actively work to stop.

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Complicity What you refuse to resist makes
you just as complicit as what you actively work to stop. - Chiara Cordelli, University of Chicago

@sandimetz Nov 2019

@sandimetz Nov 2019 “ . . . citizens of a
democracy are collectively responsible for what their society allows;

democracy are collectively responsible for what their society allows; they have a special duty towards those it systematically fails,

democracy are collectively responsible for what their society allows; they have a special duty towards those it systematically fails, and this burden falls most heavily on those most amply rewarded . . .”

democracy are collectively responsible for what their society allows; they have a special duty towards those it systematically fails, and this burden falls most heavily on those most amply rewarded . . .” -Chiala Cordelli, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

@sandimetz Nov 2019 “Decide what social problem pisses you oﬀ
most, and then pursue a solution that is

@sandimetz Nov 2019 “Decide what social problem pisses you oﬀ
most, and then pursue a solution that is public, democratic, universal, and institutional.” - Anand Giridharadas, Stay Tuned with Preet

@sandimetz Thanks Nov 2019

@sandimetz Nov 2019 Special Thanks to Julia Trimmer for research,
organization and rant support. @jrtrimmer [email protected]

@sandimetz References Nov 2019 Wiseman, Richard, 2003, "The Luck Factor",
http://richardwiseman.com/resources/The_Luck_Factor.pdf US Department of Labor, Employment and Earnings by Occupation 2017, https://www.dol.gov/wb/ occupations_interactive_txt.htm Computer Programmer Demographics in the United States, Career Explorer, https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/ computer-programmer/demographics/ Chetty, Raj & John N. Friedman & Nathaniel Hendren & Maggie R. Jones & Sonya R. Porter, 2018. "The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility," Working Papers 18-42, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau. The Opportunity Atlas, https://www.opportunityatlas.org/

@sandimetz References Nov 2019 Mapping Inequality: How Redlining Is Still
Aﬀecting Inner Cities, https://www.wunc.org/post/mapping-inequality-how- redlining-still-aﬀecting-inner-cities Mapping Inequality, Redlining in New Deal America, https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=5/39.1/-94.58 HOCL Maps Analysis, National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/ index.html?appid=26f9e05dc193413b9738ce6d89da95f5 1937 Home Owners Loan Corporation Area Descriptions for Durham, North Carolina https://s3.amazonaws.com/holc/tiles/ NC/Durham/1937/ads.zip via https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=13/36/-78.926&city=durham- nc&text=downloads Szto, Mary, “Real Estate Agents as Agents of Social Change: Redlining, Reverse Redlining, and Greenlining”, 2013, https:// digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1722&context=sjsj

@sandimetz References Nov 2019 Boushey, Heather, 2019, "Unbound: How Inequality
Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It" Desmond, Matthew, 2017, "Evicted: Poverty and Proﬁt in the American City" Giridharadas, Anand, 2018, "Winners Take All, The Elite Charade of Changing the World" Gladstone, Brook, "The Scarlet E, Unmasking America's Eviction Crisis", On the Media, https://www.wnycstudios.org/ podcasts/otm/scarlet-e-unmasking-americas-eviction-crisis Ingraham, Christopher, 2019, "Wealth concentration returning to ‘levels last seen during the Roaring Twenties,’ according to new research", https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/08/wealth-concentration-returning-levels-last-seen- during-roaring-twenties-according-new-research/ Kiel, Paul, 2019, “IRS:Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor”, https://www.propublica.org/article/irs- sorry-but-its-just-easier-and-cheaper-to-audit-the-poor Kuttner, Robert 2019, "Neoliberalism: Political Success, Economic Failure", https://prospect.org/economy/neoliberalism- political-success-economic-failure/ New York Times, 2019, "1619 Project", https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america- slavery.html

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