To a certain extent, this almost seems obvious, once said. If employers could hire an identically qualified Black guy or businesswoman for 80 percent the cost of a white guy, why wouldn’t every single edgy firm in the country do exclusively that—and gain a massive market-share lead on the competition by immediately shaving 20 percent off labor costs? Why have we never heard of even one single tech bro doing it? The answer is simple: the basic premise of the left-wing argument about what performance gaps mean is wrong.