> How do “woke politics” prevent you from doing your job well?
I’m a hiring manager and where I work we have an unwritten “understanding” that if your candidate recommendations don’t include any women you are a sexist.
I just make sure I include a few female candidates even if none in the recruitment pool are capable because it’s not worth the trouble.
However, I imagine that for many “by the book” hiring managers this causes significant anxiety and stress.
> The whole experience is bizarre and inhuman and I don’t quite understand how many of my friends do it.
Why is it bizarre and inhuman?
A maid working in Singapore will earn 3-4x what she will make in Indonesia with generally better working conditions.
In addition because expenses are minimal (food+accommodation provided) you can save in 3-5 years what a typical lower class family living in Indonesia will save over 20.
> You just only hire people who already agree with you. You don't even have to do this consciously, it's the default human behavior.
Exactly - our product uses angular because two of our core engineers loved angular, helped people who were having trouble with angular, and hired people who also liked angular.
Not because angular was the best tech choice. We didn’t even do a proper evaluation.
And this is for a hundred million+/year project......
> I don't know, I guess it's possible? Maybe you have a better idea for how it could be happening, but it just doesn't seem very likely at all.
I’ve seen this kind of thought pattern a few times and frankly the way you are thinking doesn’t match reality.
I work on a 1000+ person enterprise software project.
Less than 5% of those 1000+ understand our customers requirements and use cases in any real depth. This is despite trying for years to incentivise developers to have a broader understanding of our business.
Within that core 5% most decisions are driven by the 3-5 people who care about the particular area.
So for a 1000 person+ org you would need to corrupt 3-4 people to drive a hidden agenda.
This is for a project not trying to be secretive in any way.
To relate it back to Twitter you would probably need the right 3-4 people to push hard for content moderators to be hired in San Francisco instead of Bangalore in order to push hard left views.
> move somewhere else and have the significant monetary gain to compensate them for their trouble
People don’t want to leave their homes and move away from family and friends just so a city can grow.
Life isn’t just about money.
I don’t want my city to grow any larger - higher density means lower quality of life for the people who have lived here for decades - aka my actual community.
> “You just don't know how things used to be before the police", which I think really misses what people are asking for ie: redistribution of grossly overbudgeted police departments to preventative
Or more likely they don’t think preventative measures work as well as you think they do.
Edit: Once you have seen acts of senseless violence - real cruel stuff - it is hard to believe that some people can be reliably rehabilitated.
Maybe that cruelty could have been nipped in the bud if they had received better care in the past - but that’s not a risk I would take with my community.
> You have to explicitly optimise the city for public transit. Quite a lot of European cities do that.
Even in those cities very few enjoy taking public transport - and would drive if they had free parking, didn’t have to pay tolls, didn’t think it was terrible for the environment, etc
I’m a hiring manager and where I work we have an unwritten “understanding” that if your candidate recommendations don’t include any women you are a sexist.
I just make sure I include a few female candidates even if none in the recruitment pool are capable because it’s not worth the trouble.
However, I imagine that for many “by the book” hiring managers this causes significant anxiety and stress.