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Respect the math concession on quotas vs. meritocracy — we agree rigid outcome targets break blind selection. But your “just widen the top-of-funnel then keep ruthless blind meritocracy” version is the idealized theory DEI advocates always describe. It’s not what most corporations, including Boeing, actually implemented. Boeing had explicit demographic targets (20% increase in Black U.S. workforce by 2025), mandated “diverse interview slates,” and tied executive bonuses directly to hitting diversity metrics. They only dismantled the standalone DEI department, removed those goals from comp, and scaled back programs in late 2024/early 2025 — right after years of quality/safety crises and under a new CEO refocusing on merit and engineering. That’s measurable outcome pressure, not neutral pool-broadening. Same pattern at dozens of other firms now quietly rolling back DEI (Google, Meta, McDonald’s, etc.) because the real-world version created the very problems you claim it doesn’t. In aerospace, where lives literally depend on competence, pretending the practiced version matched the theory is the actual intellectual dodge. Expand pipelines all you want — but never compromise selection standards. Full stop.

Further You are conflating a valid mathematical constraint with a lazy operational diagnosis. Mathematically, you are correct: rigid demographic quotas at the bottom of a hiring funnel cannot coexist with a pure rank-order meritocracy. If the underlying talent pipeline for a specialized role (like aerospace engineering) does not proportionally match general population demographics, forcing an equal outcome at the point of hire means you mathematically have to bypass higher-scoring candidates. Zero-sum quotas break merit-based selection. But drawing a straight line from that HR friction to the operational collapse of companies like Boeing is a severe misdiagnosis of corporate rot. Boeing’s planes aren’t falling apart because of diversity targets. They are failing because of a 25-year structural shift from an engineering-led culture to a finance-led one. When executive leadership prioritizes short-term shareholder ROI, burns $68 billion on stock buybacks over a decade, and aggressively outsources critical manufacturing to external suppliers to crush overhead, quality control shatters. That is a failure of financial engineering and supply chain management, not social engineering. Pinning catastrophic safety failures on DEI is intellectually lazy and ignores the actual mechanics of how large organizations fail. High-performance companies solve this by separating the funnel, not by abandoning the effort. You apply DEI at the top of the funnel to aggressively widen your sourcing by expanding recruitment beyond legacy networks to capture a higher total volume of high-aptitude candidates. But the bottom of the funnel where the actual selection process happens remains a ruthless, blind meritocracy. You optimize for equal opportunity at the top and accept unequal outcomes at the bottom based strictly on performance. When you mandate outcomes, you destroy standards. When you expand inputs but maintain strict selection criteria, you actually increase the quality of the hire.

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@elonmusk Five minutes to get it up... ?

Starlink works 5 mins after you receive it

You know you are winning an argument when you resort to name calling. It really strengthens you points. I don't watch Fox. Do you? Elon is speaking from experience running multiple S-tier companies. But please, do tell him how you know better than he does about what actually works. "DEI doesn’t force hire over merit, it protects against discrimination." No. DEI and meritocracy cannot coexist. Meritocracy means: hire and promote the single best person for the job, period — skills, performance, results. DEI (in practice) means: achieve specific demographic outcomes and "equity." Those two goals are mathematically incompatible. If the most qualified candidate doesn't check the right identity boxes, DEI pressures you to pick someone else to hit the quota or "representation" target. That's not "protecting against discrimination" — it's instituting discrimination by identity. Anti-discrimination law already existed (Civil Rights Act, etc.). DEI goes beyond equal opportunity and demands equal outcomes, which requires treating people unequally. That's why companies and institutions that leaned hard into DEI saw qualified people passed over, standards lowered, and performance suffer. You can't optimize for the absolute best talent and for demographic checkboxes at the same time. One has to lose.

@Veeeee @elonmusk DEI doesn’t force hire over merit, it protects against discrimination. So many Americans chiming in on this with no bloody clue! Just following along Fox like lemmings. Read the actual legislation!

@SydneyLWatson It's the small things that add up. He is 100% correct.

Texan boyfriend is losing his mind because I bought a $9 coffee. Apparently it is tiny. And he has been ranting about how insane it is for the past 5 minutes. 😭😂 He told me I had to show you all "comparison photos" so you can see how stupid this is. Is this a regular male experience? To go mad about the price of small things? 😂😂😂

DEI wasn't just in Musk’s companies — it was pushed everywhere, including deep into the military (that's exactly what this documentary is about). SpaceX wins its government contracts on raw merit and performance, not politics — NASA is now only ~5% of revenue, with commercial Starlink driving the majority. Musk isn't complaining because his companies are 'protected.' He's raising awareness because DEI over merit kills competence in high-stakes fields like defense and aerospace. And yes, he's posting this so people stop voting for politicians who promote DEI.

@Veeeee @elonmusk DEI doesn’t undermine what he does…. It’s about government funding for his companies. Look a bit deeper than that and off the conspiracy theory Fox News dumpster.

@DaytonDavis @elonmusk DEI could undermine everything Elon does. Don't you get it?

@Veeeee @elonmusk LOL you mean government subsidies?

@DaytonDavis @elonmusk X/xAI/Tesla/SpaceX/Boring Co will mean and be nothing if we turn back down the Biden era path. We are doing better, but by no way are we 'out of the woods'. I am all in on Tesla and IDGAF Elon posts this. You think he's doing it for fun?

@elonmusk Fuck man can stop with this rage hate Conservative shit man and focus on X/xAI/Tesla/SpaceX/Boring Co and drop this political shit! We get it the more you lean in on this the more money you make but you’ve got enough bro….. just build good fucking tech!

@mathsrick_ @grok What grade of math is this?

It needs brain and effort to solve

@Peakanime0 These people need AI.

Nah WTF… how can animation from 1985 look 100x better than something from 2025… what are we even doing 💀

@vince_cardinal3 @Ravonic @Simon_Ingari It's a job that takes at least 18 months just to become okay at. I got really good at it. Not easy to replace.

@Veeeee @Ravonic @Simon_Ingari Seriously!!!,did not try to find someone to replace you so they can kick you out?

2021: No salary increase 2022: No salary increase 2023: No salary increase 2024: No salary increase 2025: No salary increase 2026: Employee: “Kindly accept my resignation.” Boss: “But you’re doing such a great job! Why are you leaving?” Employee: “I’ve received a new job offer with a 65% salary increase, and there’s also a guaranteed annual raise based on performance.” 48 hours later…

@vince_cardinal3 @Ravonic @Simon_Ingari I accepted my companies counter offer and have continued to work with them for many more years.

@Veeeee @Ravonic @Simon_Ingari And you accepted the offer instead to work away,why??.

@vince_cardinal3 @Ravonic @Simon_Ingari Basically I took a difficult technical job and got good at it. Then when another company offered me what I was worth (given the improvement) I then had my employer beat the offer.

@Veeeee @Ravonic @Simon_Ingari How did you do that?I will like to learn it

Find out the highest possible no. by moving only 2 match sticks Only 0.09% success.

@RyanRodero I like hand made art and I like AI art. I hope we can all get along. I personally think that professional artists should be treasured. I don't see anywhere near the same enthusiasm to learn to make it by hand as we used to see.

AI bros be having serious rejection issues that they get intensely triggered whenever they see real art or hear real artists criticize their kind. Let me demonstrate... 😂

@Ravonic @Simon_Ingari This is how I got my largest raises. More than a decade later, they still haven't replaced me.

@Simon_Ingari Never accept the counter offer. They are only buying time to prepare your replacement and cover their hide. You'll be removed at the moment it's advantageous to them.

@SwordsSlippers know your audience

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@Vincentt1987 A lot of 'smart' people are overthinking this elementary problem.

En Japón, la pregunta de 100 puntos que un maestro de primaria le hizo a sus estudiantes diciendo "solo tienen 1 minuto"; "Encuentren el error lógico en la imagen."

@sciencegirl @grok Define terminal velocity and tell us what the terminal velocity of a diving human is.

What if you jump from space into a swimming pool.

@FPCGameSoftware Am I the only one who noticed the stove top is oriented the wrong way? Normally you cook on the side the sink is.

I have been experimenting with Grok imagine, to boost the number of videos in our kinetic DLC. She's a bit more hyper than we intended, but we will use a different audio clip, and it should work. What do you guys think? (Had to go frame by frame to make sure no nip slips 🤣)