> Shouldn't it be people should hire people who are most qualified for the position? If you take that literally (and we are on HN so I will), the most qualifie

> Shouldn't it be people should hire people who are most qualified for the position? If you take that literally (and we are on HN so I will), the most qualified person for any given position probably costs far too much money. Rather, companies want to hire an arbitrary person from the set of competent people. Hiring someone's friend is arbitrary, but not uniformly random (i.e. diverse). Hence the problem.