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 forc

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.