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Then company X gets rightfully trounced by a Chinese firm 5 years from now which does not share our ridiculous racial taboos. Some crimes are self policing.

by wycs 9y ago

HarryHirsch 9y ago
No company ever got trounced because they followed the prevailing political winds. Let's face it: the top tech companies have sufficient applicants, so they can choose whoever they want, and most jobs are drone jobs.
- stcredzero 9y ago
  No company ever got trounced because they followed the prevailing political winds. Many companies have failed due in part to internal politics. Also, weren't many of the companies involved in the financial crisis going along with the prevailing political winds, just before everything changed?
- ghostcluster 9y ago
  > Management techniques in NASA, the report said, discouraged dissenting views on safety issues and ultimately created “blind spots” about the risk to the space shuttle of the foam insulation impact. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077541/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/shuttle-report-blames-nasa-culture/ http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077541/ns/technology_and_science-...
- whatyoucantsay 9y ago
  > No company ever got trounced because they followed the prevailing political winds. Let's face it: the top tech companies have sufficient applicants Many companies have been trounced by outsiders unconstrained by their political liabilities. Let's face it: Ford, Chevy and Chrysler all had sufficient applicants, even as Toyota and Honda were building the processes and company cultures that would dethrone them.
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vondur 9y ago
Yes, this is how companies start to decline.
- discoursism 9y ago
  Is it? I'm not aware of any company in the history of the United States that has failed because it tried to increase its workforce's diversity. Would you mind providing an example?
notacoward 9y ago
Are you seriously trying to suggest that Chinese firms don't have their own racial taboos? Or gender issues? That directly contradicts every experience I've had or report I've heard. Aren't their crimes self-policing too?
- meetapoorvgupta 9y ago
  All I know is that China has a huge, ambitious, STEM-focused workforce and a smaller economy. They could discriminate against applicants on any arbitrary basis ( I have no idea if they do, but that's irrelevant) and still continue to hire lots of intelligent, highly-qualified, and hard-working employees.
YouAreGreat 9y ago
Natural monopolist Google enjoys a "competitive moat" and collects monopoly rent. The combination allows for a lot of unpunished "inefficiency". And scare quotes around "inefficiency" because I'm not convinced putting pressure on their productive white/asian male majority employees is actually inefficient for Google.

Then company X gets rightfully trounced by a Chinese firm 5 years from now which does not share our ridiculous racial taboos. Some crimes are self policing.

by wycs 9y ago

Then company X gets rightfully trounced by a Chinese firm 5 years from now which does not share our ridiculous racial taboos. Some crimes are self policing.

HarryHirsch 9y ago

No company ever got trounced because they followed the prevailing political winds. Let's face it: the top tech companies have sufficient applicants, so they can choose whoever they want, and most jobs are drone jobs.

stcredzero 9y ago
No company ever got trounced because they followed the prevailing political winds. Many companies have failed due in part to internal politics. Also, weren't many of the companies involved in the financial crisis going along with the prevailing political winds, just before everything changed?
ghostcluster 9y ago
> Management techniques in NASA, the report said, discouraged dissenting views on safety issues and ultimately created “blind spots” about the risk to the space shuttle of the foam insulation impact. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077541/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/shuttle-report-blames-nasa-culture/ http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077541/ns/technology_and_science-...
whatyoucantsay 9y ago
> No company ever got trounced because they followed the prevailing political winds. Let's face it: the top tech companies have sufficient applicants Many companies have been trounced by outsiders unconstrained by their political liabilities. Let's face it: Ford, Chevy and Chrysler all had sufficient applicants, even as Toyota and Honda were building the processes and company cultures that would dethrone them.
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vondur 9y ago

Yes, this is how companies start to decline.

discoursism 9y ago
Is it? I'm not aware of any company in the history of the United States that has failed because it tried to increase its workforce's diversity. Would you mind providing an example?

notacoward 9y ago

Are you seriously trying to suggest that Chinese firms don't have their own racial taboos? Or gender issues? That directly contradicts every experience I've had or report I've heard. Aren't their crimes self-policing too?

meetapoorvgupta 9y ago
All I know is that China has a huge, ambitious, STEM-focused workforce and a smaller economy. They could discriminate against applicants on any arbitrary basis ( I have no idea if they do, but that's irrelevant) and still continue to hire lots of intelligent, highly-qualified, and hard-working employees.

YouAreGreat 9y ago

Natural monopolist Google enjoys a "competitive moat" and collects monopoly rent. The combination allows for a lot of unpunished "inefficiency". And scare quotes around "inefficiency" because I'm not convinced putting pressure on their productive white/asian male majority employees is actually inefficient for Google.