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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Companies did it because it was the right thing to do and they recognized their own practices were contributing to inequality, and felt it would be good for the company financially(and it has been proven to be so) and also good socially and for corporate image. In short the benefits were in line with financial goals, and also socially positive. Win win. Plus governments were doing what they do, making companies follow practices that benefit society in general, because corporations are driven by money.
Disagree on the bold, there is strong pressure to get rid of them from the right. You can't ignore that the US government is removing funding, support, and actively punishing companies and countries that have any sort of DEI policy. Did you see how quickly corporations dumped environmental goals when Trump got elected? They mostly had little financial benefit and probably a cost, but had the social good. The decision was simple. DEI getting dumped because they fear losing money, and the brainwashed masses have been convinced DEI policies are bad, so they lost the social benefit too. Corporations sway with the direction of money. Once the government switched from supporting to punishing DEI the change was obvious.
Love that you think striving for equality is overblown. Says a lot about you.
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Striving for equality is not overblown but DEI practices are not the right approach. You and I and most of the members here on CP grew up with the ideology that we should strive for equality through a lens that is colour blind and that a person's race/ethnicity should not be a determining factor in their success and available opportunities. We can extend that to other forms such as gender and sexual orientation. What DEI does is the complete opposite and it makes race, gender and sexual orientation the primary focus because someone somewhere says that good companies should have x% of a certain attribute in a given role.