/lit/ - Literature

>>19248924
Wishful thinking. "Companies only do things for profit" and therefore they are doing it for profit. You are coping, you don't want to see what's plainly there.
What if they aren't?
Even in the above scenario there are many ways a company can behave, you often see cutthroat CEOs taking over a mediocre company and running into the ground in order to satisfy certain interests... You often see personal rivalries between business personalities getting in the way of optimal profit. Holdings companies can literally play their assets against each other. Marketing retards can run roughshod over entire brands, like what happened with Pepsi, see pic related. And that's on the actual corporate level, not on the meme managerial level where these diversity directives operate... they are the province of HR departments, who have couped some level of power from the purely predatory profit sharks.
What you are seeing is tribalist morons in a nepotistic superficial field (business) bowing to cargo-cult faggots in superficial fields aping empiricism (marketing and social sciences). None of those surveys are even reliable, the only results that can be replicated are those subject to selection bias, if they are even using surveys and not just the current dogma among the activist demographic and "soft sciences".
When you have records and proof of big entertainment firms running things off of nepotism and caprice and making terrible fucking mistakes, when you see allegedly predatory universities actively trying to recruit poor demographics, when positions of power and respect are turned into ethnic sinecures where it is impossible to fail (see: that terrible poetry they read at Biden's inauguration), this speaks to ideology and corruption over performance.
There was no grand imperial plan in Rome's recruitment of Germanic mercenaries, it was a stopgap measure which systematically underestimated the vagrant tribes due to anti-barbarian rhetoric, and ultimately metastasized and fucked them in the ass. Same deal, we're just a few decades out from the consequences being felt.