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It's crazy too because diverse companies tend to outperform non-diverse ones, it's just the opportunities to get there that are few and far between for under-represented groups, because of the structural and social barriers.

Many don't realize or acknowledge the existence of these barriers, because they are not affected by them. When you have the wind at your back you tend to attribute your success to yourself.

Big US companies also have a management problem. Boeing is the poster child. From being storied company that helped win WWII with its B-17s. It decided to claim positioning bigger engines on the 737Max would not change flight characteristics and not tell the pilots who fly the planes and are responsible for passengers lives about MCAS. It then outsourced the code for MCAS to programmers who made $9/hour. Boeing is telling us loud and clear that it doesn't care about physics or its customers. It also doesn't care about its workers.

This is your brain on DEI. These mindless regurgitations of “facts” come across like religious mantras at this point.

Calling me sheep is not an argument, it's a projection. I'm not the one listening at shouting people on the internet.

Don't feed the trolls. That's likely not even a real person, just a bot auto-replying to keywords.

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