Sure, any employer can always choose to lower their standards, but wouldn't you argue then, that the quality of their output is also likely to suffer?
The goal here is to ensure their ethical competitors have access to resources they don't.
The goal here is to ensure their ethical competitors have access to resources they don't.
Sure, but I also think if you have enough money to retire early, you're less likely to do something you don't agree with. Many people don't have that luxury.
No. As I previously stated Google puts people through enormous hoops to work there. That has no bearing on the quality of the worker.
For example, it's been noted that past a certain IQ, there is diminishing returns - eg, past ~130 IQ you're no more likely to win a Nobel Prize.
I think the real threat is that Google "lowers" it's standards and output remains the same. This would threaten the business models of "elite" schools who pretend to have a monopoly on talent.