Look, there are multiple lawsuits against universities regarding their hiring practices going on right now.

Outside of academia you have things like the FAA hiring scandal coming to light: https://substack.com/home/post/p-156166190

The list goes on and on.

What's the "unimaginable waste"? Can you put a comparative number on it?

Do you think that DEI is just some line item in a budget that can easily be produced? Without which we'll just have to shrug our shoulders and endlessly equivocate about how their might be some waste?

All I'm asking for is evidence of the problem you're saying exists.