All of this boils down to the same thing. Labor arbitrage. D&I benefits those trying to increase the supply of coders and via supply and demand reduce the rate

All of this boils down to the same thing. Labor arbitrage. D&I benefits those trying to increase the supply of coders and via supply and demand reduce the rates. Older engineers are going to want more money etc.. Of course a nice benefit with the movement (for those who want to exert downward pressure on the wages) is that many D&I initiatives also tend to be ageist. IE: accusing the previous generation for enabling bad behavior, stating that the majority of older workers are white/male anyways etc.. Older workers generally are more skeptical of the D&I efforts. The D&I supporters have a penchant for getting people fired etc. for expressing any dissenting views against the cause...even if the person expressing the dissent is an under-represented person. For the ones trying to reduced labor costs it kills two birds with one stone. They get an expanded pool of labor. Plus the D&I crowd does most the dirty work for pushing out older workers. Now rinse wash and repeat with importing workers from low cost countries. The rich get richer and the rank and file engineers get caught up in the battles as either active participants or collateral damage. It has very little to do with doing things that are morally right and all about money. The moral outrage distracts everybody and keeps the infighting going so that the labor does not organize and target the real problem.