Publicly held Corporations still need to make a profit, so they will hire only qualified individuals to fill their ranks of research and development staff.
They will hire some quota people to keep Uncle Sugar happy, but the bottom line must be BLACK and not RED..............
I appreciate what you are saying, but could you, perhaps, give one or two names? I can only think of large corporations which, today, are unbelievably “woke”. I don’t dispute that what you say may exist, but I expect that it is not in the majority.
The company I formerly worked for appeared happily to lose money for the agenda of outsourcing. China and India have benefited greatly from what has been given to them, and DEI is probably the company’s main focus, at this point. This is a tech company and manufacturer.
I just see, time and again, on FR what I think is a very “old school” view of what runs the world. For instance, China probably runs more companies in America than any pursuit of a “dollar”. Company boards are happy to “survive”, and making anything is a distant second.