In this case, I can see how "increased cohesion"—although decreasing the "jobs project" value—would be extremely helpful for increasing tax-dollar ROI.
I highly doubt Palantir did any kind discrimination based on race.
The initial demographics of the founders and the early team has a large impact on the rest of the hires in my experience at previous startups. Main reason being that the early people are more prone to hire from referrals in their network of people they know.
Some things to consider:
P(qualified | referral) > P(qualified | all applicants)
P(same race | referral) > P(different race | referral)
and thus:
P(hire | referral applicant) > P(hire | all applicants)
I don't see any evidence of malicious or specific racial discrimination.
Part of the benefit of ensuring a diversity in government roles is aiding governments to better provide services for all aspects of society, not just the minority who hold those roles.
You are not an investor. You are not a consumer of services. This is not a business, and we don't need a CEO.
You're a CITIZEN of one of the most powerful nations on the planet, and don't you dare forget it.
Why are you trying to shut down debate? It's a good point. I want my tax dollars to be maximized and not used to somehow enforce your idea of racial justice.
I guess you didn't get downvoted because people agree with you. I agree with you also. And yet, being right is not an excuse for the overly antagonistic way you made your point.
There are a lot of things that a government does that can't be measured as a direct monetary benefit.
Currently, we seem to just think of the government as a machine that turns dollars into achieved consensus goals at some fixed (very low) efficiency. We never seem to say "what if we measured [metric] out per dollar in, and then tried to make that ratio increase?"
seen companies at local airport bidding contracts who have minorities who are merely paid to be on the board so they qualify for the contract.
want to know one reason the government is so large, intrusive, and inefficient, look no further to rules that enforce everything but efficiency.
simple math
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