Imagine if, say, NSA, or Google, or NIST or whatever, invented a magic tool that doubled the effectiveness and output of infosec/the cybersecurity industry. What would such a tool be worth? What would society pay for such a thing?

Now recognize that a huge fraction of the current and potential workforce suffer discrimination so systemically that they choose to leave, self-reduce output, make fewer moonshot risks, and otherwise deal day-to-day with emotional trash that diminishes their productivity

That& #39;s what bigotry is. It doesn& #39;t just make some people& #39;s lives hell for no reason beyond the circumstances of their birth, it& #39;s also just an absolutely insane deadweight crippling the effectiveness of any industry that tolerates it.

Even if you& #39;re so devoid of humanity that you can& #39;t treat it as an obvious moral question, you can still treat it as a basic question of efficiency and still get to the same answer: no bigot& #39;s contributions will ever come close to the harm they do from pushing others out.