> White people are over represented across the workforce because America is not a meritocracy -- benefits of economic class are correlated with race because of

> White people are over represented across the workforce because America is not a meritocracy -- benefits of economic class are correlated with race because of white supremacy. Be careful because white people are actually under-represented[1] at Microsoft relative to their makeup of American population[2] (48% at Microsoft vs 75% country-wide). It's really important to understand this because otherwise DEI initiatives may counter-intuitively increase representation of white people. See school admissions for an example: https://apnews.com/article/hispanics-racial-injustice-science-race-and-ethnicity-education-b02f6ed353ef89258e0eadf7eabec24d https://apnews.com/article/hispanics-racial-injustice-scienc... [1] Page 9 of https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RWNrak https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RW... [2] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045221 https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045221