"Diversity" is empty HR speak, please specify which kind of diversity fosters innovation.
To keep an open mind I did a thought experiment and found a few: entertainment, fusion food, music, those things I'd imagine benefit greatly from diversity.
I'm talking about the diversity of WW2 era Germany bringing, through great atrocity, a means for the world to not starve via nitrogen sequestration derived by the tragedies of the holocaust and the Haber Method.
It is not the prettiest example, but it fits what you've asked for.
- There was diversity
- As a result, there was innovation.
This disregards a LOT of bad things that came from this, and it doesn't validate or excuse those bad things, however it fits the stipulations of what you outlined: a time where diversity created innovation.
[EDIT] wow, you edited your whole long form reply and just replaced it with "I'm not a bot"? That's such a misleading and dishonest thing to do for everyone reading these posts from now onwards
If you hire all of the same socioeconomic strata even if they are different races chances are you will not get a wide depth of experience and world view
Demographics of this city I believe are 30% minority and 70% white. Of the 10 Homes owners closest to me (and they are all home owners no rentals) 4 of them are black.
My employer has a much larger than 30% black workforce.
Homelessness is not a large problem here, however it is primarily white men that I see homeless. probably on the order of 70% matching demographics
I am tired of the false narrative that the midwest is racist.
I sometimes think about coming up with a guessing game where you put up a description of rural areas from HN and then a description of fallout and let people guess which is which.
To put it bluntly, the level of ignorance from city folks on this site is astounding. Many of them cannot fathom people with money who don't wear it on their sleeve.
No, We have a big problem with drugs that is true, but I would not call it a "wasteland"
AS far a homelessness, it is a problem like it is everywhere but I have never seen anything like what is seen in CA in my life. I would call that a wasteland of homelessness.
We have tons and charities, and lower cost of living making our homelessness problem generally transitory, meaning a person is homeless in crisis which is largely corrected by community out reach in a few months. Long Term homelessness is much less of a problem here
Most on HN cannot imagine just how ignorant they are. It borders on the Marie Antoinette quote 'let them eat cake' (I'm aware its apocryphal).
You're right that the problem exists everywhere, it's just they don't put themselves into positions to see many homeless, but read stories of the poor and homeless in the rural area and make the mistake of thinking they have some grasp.