"You're not here because you're smart - you're here because you're black/a woman/<insert_biological_happenstance_here>. Moreover, we didn't need someone smart, we just wanted you because it makes us look good."
This is what I don't get. If companies are not taking the best and brightest, isn't the real talent ending up somewhere else?
I mean, do companies now just use 100 drones to brute force their way through tasks and creativity, as opposed to a few highly creative, skilled workers?
If companies are not taking the best and brightest, isn't the real talent ending up somewhere else?
The best and brightest increasingly end up in places with either a low PR profile or a place where the Bolshevism isn't tolerated. Keep in mind that those "places" may be divisions within larger companies that don't face the brunt of public interface; stated differently, the talented people won't be in the spotlight, but the half-useful grunts hired by the dipshits in HR will be front-and-center.
To highlight a counterpoint, academia can't do this - they've devoted their entire philosophy to the Marxists, which is why many departments (STEM fields included and increasingly so) now have deadweights, chosen because of their sex or their race, who will never pull down an NSF grant or do anything meaningful in their field, taking up tenure-track positions. The best and brightest GTFO and hit up the workforce where the real innovations happen.
This EO is attempting to subject federal institutions to academia's fate as a bloated corpse. In fairness, plenty of federal institutions hire deadweights anyway, but any of the ones that have flown under the radar - or would never hire an anti-American blue-haired degenerate owing to an informational security risk - now won't have much choice. Essentially, it's an inevitable wrench jammed into what keeps the wheels turning: hire the less-thans for cushy gov't jobs, or get funding pulled and/or someone else installed to do it.
So everything becomes academia, in essence.
"You're not here because you're smart - you're here because you're black/a woman/<insert_biological_happenstance_here>. Moreover, we didn't need someone smart, we just wanted you because it makes us look good."
Awesome.
This is what I don't get. If companies are not taking the best and brightest, isn't the real talent ending up somewhere else?
I mean, do companies now just use 100 drones to brute force their way through tasks and creativity, as opposed to a few highly creative, skilled workers?
The best and brightest increasingly end up in places with either a low PR profile or a place where the Bolshevism isn't tolerated. Keep in mind that those "places" may be divisions within larger companies that don't face the brunt of public interface; stated differently, the talented people won't be in the spotlight, but the half-useful grunts hired by the dipshits in HR will be front-and-center.
To highlight a counterpoint, academia can't do this - they've devoted their entire philosophy to the Marxists, which is why many departments (STEM fields included and increasingly so) now have deadweights, chosen because of their sex or their race, who will never pull down an NSF grant or do anything meaningful in their field, taking up tenure-track positions. The best and brightest GTFO and hit up the workforce where the real innovations happen.
This EO is attempting to subject federal institutions to academia's fate as a bloated corpse. In fairness, plenty of federal institutions hire deadweights anyway, but any of the ones that have flown under the radar - or would never hire an anti-American blue-haired degenerate owing to an informational security risk - now won't have much choice. Essentially, it's an inevitable wrench jammed into what keeps the wheels turning: hire the less-thans for cushy gov't jobs, or get funding pulled and/or someone else installed to do it.