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Well I don't know about GOOG specifically, but I know there has been relatively large diversity …

Well I don't know about GOOG specifically, but I know there has been relatively large diversity teams at every tech company I've worked for in recent years. Again, not GOOG specifically, but it's not uncommon for companies like this to have employees whose job it is to email people informing them to do things like rename their project's master branch to main. There have also been efforts within companies like GOOG to bring in employees who are less qualified simply because they're female or are of a certain racial group. My point about diversity programs is not that the team itself is expensive, but that when these companies push politically-motivative policies within an organisation they often cause larger inefficiencies and disruption. We've seen this in several companies in recent years such as Coinbase and Netflix. Whether you believe diversity and inclusion is important isn't really relevant to the profitability point my comment was focusing on. …

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> diversity programs... Not even remotely comparable to the other things you listed. People such as yourself seemingly can't stop talking about it though, despite it having no effect on your life.

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I think many of the things you mentioned w.r.t. diversity is actually forward-thinking and potentially yields more returns later. If there's a brilliant swe that feels uncomfortable at a company because of how they name their branches, they won't work there. Same goes for hiring a "less-qualified" individual. How many decisions or projects can be improved because of a diversity of input? Again, a non-linear outcome that is harder to measure than immediate profitability. Those are some arguments for those programs focusing on your productivity point.

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Your complete mischaracterization of these programs and outright lies about "efforts within companies like GOOG" reveals that you are completely unqualified to assess their impact on profitability. And thus you are in fact the one mentioning it for political reasons. You also didn't say "over hiring kitchen staff", you said "free lunches", which are two different things.

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