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It didn't have to

• kelseyfrog 2y ago
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  • Spivak 2y ago
    And if you're going to make some kind of evolutionary argument to the tune of, "well if diverse teams were actually better then companies would be adopting them out of pure financial gain" then you're going to have to explain the whole situation with women in the workforce. If disruptions and interventions like these aren't part of the natural order and the means by which we collectively move forward then why does it keep requiring them? Why didn't it happen on its own?
    • kelseyfrog 2y ago
      Market failure. Plain and simple. The claim that DEI "didn’t have to" happen ignores the fundamental nature of entrenched systems: they don’t change unless forced. The workforce didn’t diversify on its own for the same reason civil rights weren’t granted voluntarily—because those in power had no incentive to change a game they were winning. The "if diverse teams were better, companies would’ve adopted them naturally" argument collapses on contact with reality. Evolution doesn’t work that way. Nothing optimizes itself without external pressure. Businesses didn’t modernize because they felt like it; they did it because the alternative was extinction.