>The government is basically outsourcing social programs by forcing businesses to hire people. It is absolutely not, the entire scheme is zero-sum, so it can't

>The government is basically outsourcing social programs by forcing businesses to hire people. It is absolutely not, the entire scheme is zero-sum, so it can't replace social programs. What is given to one is taken from another, and even if this has some mild redistributive effect which could potentially lessen the need for social programs, it's never going to have much of once because the vast majority of money is held by people who will never be impacted by DEI by design. DEI is just classic rent seeking and political influence of private business. The character assassinations of its critics are again, a function of furthering rent seeking. It's a very old story.