Why is it the responsibility of the companies to fix this?  In the same way that it seems perverse that Apple is the one standing up to the USG on privacy, why do companies bear the moral responsibility for fixing social ills?<p>The only way a company should be responsible for hiring underrepresented minorities is if there was a market inefficiency to be exploited.  And even then, that&#x27;s a responsibility to their shareholders, not to society.  And &quot;we hire black people because we don&#x27;t have to pay them as much&quot; probably wouldn&#x27;t go over too well, anyway.