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Playing devil's advocate here: > Lacrosse players tend to be white and male I suspect they also tend to attend certain schools, and that could very well be ca
by hbrn 4y ago
Playing devil's advocate here:
> Lacrosse players tend to be white and male
I suspect they also tend to attend certain schools, and that could very well be causal.
> Why would it make any kind of sense to artificially shrink their candidate pool?
It doesn't make sense to shrink it if you have 10 candidates. But if you have thousands of resumes, it's not shrinking, it's filtering.
> It's not right to
It's naive to expect big corporations to act morally. Best you can do is force them to act legally.
- eru 4y ago> It's naive to expect big corporations to act morally. Best you can do is force them to act legally. That's not the only avenue. Big corporations do what their managers, customers, employees and investors want. Eg restaurants will typically try to serve tasty food, even if there's no legal requirement to do so. Similarly Google has free lunch, because that's what employees want. The recent fad for ESG shows that investor can want 'morality', too, and companies are willing to satisfy them. (I quote 'morality', because different people have different ideas, and often people only want the fig-leaf of morality, but not pay the price for what they would consider real morality. See eg greenwashing.) Customers and investors etc get what they are willing to pay for, and that's not necessarily what they say they want.