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Discussion on: Should tech companies use quotas to increase diversity?

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Prahlad Yeri • Edited

This quote sums up the whole thing.

Stereotype threat is a real thing that very clearly makes people underperform at their jobs… and then creates a vicious cycle where the groups we’re trying to help end up being tokenized and scrutinized for underperformance.

All quotas do is create resentment among the races or genders (or whatever criteria you chose for division) by tokenization of individuals. We don't want humanity to be divided, do we? Diversity isn't something that could be forced upon someone, neither should you try to do so.

I think positive reinforcement has a lot of power to change things than negative reinforcement. For example, the government can provide tax deductions, export benefits, other incentives, etc. to those companies who best maintain the diversity, isn't it?