I’m not making a value judgement. I’m making a prediction about material conditions.
> TSMC firing everyone who isn't of the same religion
I didn’t say that. But circles of a trust around important information.
> it's not hard for a spy to pretend to be <insert religion here>.
Yes it is.
It’s kind of like saying you’re going to pretend to be a different class, but more particular.
> I have pretended to be multiple kinds of Christian with success
I don’t know what context you mean. But I guarantee others can tell you aren’t a member of the group even if Christianity aims to be open in inviting new people.
Another common situation is they recognize you have some connection but can tell you aren’t an active participant.
It's not hard to pretend to be anything for 5 minutes to someone who doesn't know anything about what you're doing.
Suggesting TSMC start operating like the Taliban to protect their trade secrets seems like an obviously bad idea, though.
But we don't live in a vacuum, so I guess it's all just opinion pieces.
It's a marginally less absurd proposal.
My point stands.
Proposing extreme religious nepotism as a good counter-measure to deal with espionage 1) would be minimally effective (see the IDF infiltrating Hamas and Iran regularly), and 2) is ridiculous.
Please read the thread again.
This is not a prescription. This is a description of how high trust markets work.
See this classic economics paper “Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York”: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=349040