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This is definitely it. Big/more prominent companies generally adhere more to DEI ideology because they are bigger targets for woke gleichschaltung. Big/more prominent companies are also generally more successful otherwise they wouldn't be big/more prominent in the first place (plus they can more readily leverage economies of scale).
Let's imagine that I, myself the writer of this post, suddenly found some app like in a hentai doujin that can perform actual hypnosis on people. And let's imagine that I hypnotized every player in the NBA to become a dedicated pedofascist. Does this prove that believing in pedofascism makes you a better basketball player or that a pedofascist ideological orientation has any relationship to skill at basketball? Would any of the answers to these questions change if I had merely browbeat, gaslight, etc. them into it or even just honestly convinced them (woke conversion is somewhere in between the two, though obviously leaning towards the more coercive end in many cases)? Of course not. Replacing "DEI" with a more obscure ideology makes it clear that the whole thing is a non-sequitur.
(To be clear, being a dedicated pedofascist might make you more likely to be a better basketball player, given that fascism tends to emphasize competitiveness and physical vigor, but a mere correlation created by convincing good basketball players of it could never prove that by itself. And unless "DEI" advocates can offer up a more fundamental explanation of why their ideology might enhance business productivity as I just did for my example, they have nothing else.)
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