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It's not like the people making these decisions care about racial pay equity as an end in itself, they pursue these moves so the wokest 10% of employees keep their discontent to a simmer instead of drumming up lawsuits. Counterproductive doesn't matter until it affects PR + recruiting. Meanwhile, cheaper labor, that's something the people managing P&L do care about...

They cannot possibly be this short-sighted could they? What is their rationale??

are these jobs mostly replacing hard drives and what not when they go bad at the server farm?