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Re:How Mormons built a startup ecosystem in Utah by rsj_hn on Saturday July 18, 2020 @04:49PM (#23884723)
The big economic growth success stories of the last 50 years were in China and East Asia: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam. Some of the least diverse places on earth. Many of these wont accept immigrants from other backgrounds at all, although they might accept low wage agricultural workers.

Economic growth in the US over the same period was mediocre, with declining productivity, and in Europe, it was anemic.

There is just no evidence that nations which focus on diversity in and of themselves have had better economic outcomes.

Now it does make sense that if you are in a large multi-ethnic society then you will be at a disadvantage if you only hire from one group, since good people are hard to find, so why limit yourself to just a small subset of the population. This is less important for a small company than a large company that really needs to cast a wide net. So not intentionally excluding subgroups of your population makes economic sense.

But I'm not aware of any evidence that being more diverse than your population will improve outcomes.

Re:How Mormons built a startup ecosystem in Utah by claudiawerner on Monday July 20, 2020 @04:15AM (#23895770)
>Many of these wont accept immigrants from other backgrounds at all, although they might accept low wage agricultural workers.

This is not true. In the case of Japan, so long as an employer there is willing to sponsor your visa, you'll have no problems immigrating there or becoming a permanent resident.

Re:How Mormons built a startup ecosystem in Utah by varjag on Saturday July 18, 2020 @06:32PM (#23885406)
Most of the places you listed were recovering from war-ravaged ruin. Of course they had greater gap to cover than the USA.
Re:How Mormons built a startup ecosystem in Utah by rsj_hn on Saturday July 18, 2020 @06:39PM (#23885444)
I said "last 50 years", which means since 1970. If you think that WW2 was still a meaningful factor in economic output in 1970, you are in a very small minority and are making some very unusual claims.
Re:How Mormons built a startup ecosystem in Utah by varjag on Saturday July 18, 2020 @07:37PM (#23885734)
Korean truce was announced 13 years before 1970: that's the distance between 2020 and the last recession. Taiwan's northern territories were still being shelled. Vietnam war was still ongoing. China just stopped the campaign of exterminating sparrows and intelligentsia.