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To me it seems really stupid, from an economical perspective, to fire a competent employee just because their religion, world-views, sexuality or whatever doesn
by wsc981 7y ago
To me it seems really stupid, from an economical perspective, to fire a competent employee just because their religion, world-views, sexuality or whatever doesn't align with your own. I'd hope such employees can find good employment elsewhere. If that'd be true, I'd say eventually these issues should work themselves out in the long run, since a more diverse company might be able to outcompete a less diverse company.
- bonoboTP 7y agoAll you read on HN is the thousand ways in which (software) companies are inefficient but stuck in their ways and the market doesn't sort it out. Long hours, butts in seats mentality are the ones I read last. Managers have their own incentives and a lot of those are about perceptions, not necessarily money.
- newen 7y agoThat is such a naive framing of this topic when you have structural forces at work here. An example is say half a century ago when you have 99% of businesses practicing racist hiring policies. You can talk about economical inefficiencies all you want but what ends up happening is a segment of the population who are left with no good employment and continuing their generational poverty.