There are some interesting experiences in this article and it starts strong. But as it turns into a critique of society it is weird how she criticizes the unmer

There are some interesting experiences in this article and it starts strong. But as it turns into a critique of society it is weird how she criticizes the unmeritocratic realities of her field while at the same time lauding diversity hires for the sake of "progressivism"? I think her point about (especially in pre-modern-internet days) how it was difficult to judge how you should be efficiently spending your time when you grow up as a big fish in a small pond is a good one, something myself and many kids I graduated high school with can understand, though there's no real solution besides earlier and more realistic educations. I am in her generation and I think we will be raising our kids a little less idealistically and a little more practically based on the hard lessons we've learned about where hard work ends and your privileges-from-birth begin. The society where we pretend that everyone should be able to equally persue the same opportunities is a problem that ignores the practical reality this woman and many in our generation learned the hard way. Or not, I don't think her simultaneous praise for diversimania and progressivism with a critique of capitalism, while I think the critique is valid, is going to do anything helpful. As the author mentions, the divisity hires are decorative flourish demanded by the donor class and are still going to be filled by privileged people, just privileged people of the correct hue.