Is anyone in power going to come out and say that it’s very obvious that you don’t need workplace diversity? Silicon Valley created trillions of dollars of wealth in just a few decades and it was staffed with 90% white, Indian, and East Asian men.
I sympathize a bit with things like Affirmative Action, but at the end of the day, a person (disregarding gender, physical condition, race, etc...) who earned it doesn't deserve to be displaced by others who didn't.
B. There's no way to know whether a more diverse Silicon Valley would have created $trillions + X dollars. Saying something was successful doesn't tell you anything about whether the alternative would have been more successful or not.
C. Wealth creation is a shitty metric. Ideally, all economic activity serves some purpose that makes actual people's lives better. This is why breaking windows to stimulate economic activity is considered a fallacy[1]. This is somewhat related to A, but saying "wealth was created so everything must be ok" is not very convincing.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Shitty compared to what? Wealth does correlate with better life and is fairly easy to measure.
Do you a specific "actual people's lives better" metric in mind?
Still waiting to hear which metric is more useful. It looks like you brought up life expectancy, but it does correlate with wealth. Unlike wealth, it's is extremely hard to measure due to enormous lag.
Perhaps Silicon Valley would be even better off if all the developers had pet llamas at their disposal. But there is no llama industry that would lobby for that.
idk that sounds like diversity
No, but they say obviously untested things like this: "diverse companies are more profitable and more likely to achieve long-term growth as an entity and in their industry." -- Marketwatch
If that was true you wouldn't see the push for it, companies would be fine with their competitors missing the boat while they hired all the undervalued diversity. I would prefer honest messaging such as "Diversity may cost in the short term but we believe it is morally worth doing". Then we could have an open conversation about goals and methods and costs.
Lol. Lmao even. It's bizarre, because you could have said "trillions of dollars" and been completely correct.