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No one is hiring on the content of anyone's character. I get the sentiment here but it doesn't work. No one is stopping them from hiring two people aside from greed. Stop blaming the worker and start blaming the employer that had to be forced to even look at people outside of straight white men.
This only works if you assume that a company can only be successful with the best talent, and that simply isn't true. Disney is massively profitable but its ranks are filled with nepo-hires, idiots, whatever - all kinds of "not the best." We like to pretend that business is a purely pragmatic and as such integrity will automatically occur based on the profit motive.... but that just isn't reality, at all. In reality business is personal, and crony, and human-driven, and so many other things that keep it miles away from being the pragmatism you're implying.
This is why businesses are full of unskilled nephews, old business school friends, etc.
So framing this as "DEI" vs "merit-based" is flawed as fuck because "merit-based" was never actually on the table.
Right, I’m sure my company did an exhaustive search and just so happened to be a coincidence that all the most qualified talent has the same last name. Weird.
Yes, this is literally what DEI program at least stifle, as now you can't just stack the deck with all your cronies. And yes, there will still be nepo-babies, but 60% nepo-baby crony executives is still an improvement over 90-100%. Life isn't all or nothing, it's frustratingly incremental.
Show me where I discouraged you for any genuine efforts towards betterment, for any severity or speed. I'll wait.