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Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @10:37AM (#14958153)
There's enough "top workers" available in pretty much any kind of social/racial/gender-based group you could delineate, that even companies with explicit discrimination policies can find the talent they need.

The market won't give you the solution you seek; the issue does not impact profitability enough.

Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by puranjay on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:02PM (#14959222)
A company staffed by racists will by boycotted by the majority of consumers. Its only customers will be other racists.

Plus, most other companies will refuse to supply goods and services to it lest they feel the backlash of catering to racists.

Not exactly a feasible venture.

Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:21PM (#14959413)
Like today majority of soft drink consumers boycott Coca Cola?

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Coca-Cola#Investm...

Actual experience has proven beyond doubt that boycotts don't work, and even if a company has blood on its hand, their deeds are quickly forgotten.

Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by puranjay on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:08PM (#14961400)
Your own link talks about how the drink was boycotted across campuses.

But you can't bring up the Apartheid and not dig through a huge history of companies, countries and people explicity or implicitly supporting it.

Doesn't justify anything of course but Coca-Cola wasn't the only company doing it

Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by TeMPOraL on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @04:24AM (#14966569)
> Your own link talks about how the drink was boycotted across campuses.

Didn't change much.

> Doesn't justify anything of course but Coca-Cola wasn't the only company doing it

That's my point, though. Plenty of companies have engaged in abhorrent acts, with little meaningful consequences to them. The market is not good at solving these types of problems.